Crazy Ships
This oil tanker is the longest ship ever constructed.
What is the Seawise Giant, Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, Knock Nevis, Mont?
This lead ship is the first American aircraft carrier design in over 40 years.
What is the USS Gerald R. Ford?
The oldest U.S. Navy Ship still in commision.
What is the USS Constitution?
This 1981 intense German film follows the life aboard this a U-Boat during WWII.
What is Das Boot?
Originating from a French saying for help me, now used as a universal distress signal.
What is mayday?
During World War Two, the U.S. Navy converted concrete barges to serve hungry servicemen this dessert.
What is ice cream?
This class of submarine will replace the aging Ohio class.
What is the Columbia Class?
The first U.S. Aircraft Carrier.
What is the USS Langley?
This movie cost more to make then it did to build the ship it was about.
What is Titanic?
We would describe someone as this if they were known to be dangerous and unpredictable. It originally came from a piece of unsecured equipment on a ship.
What is a loose cannon?
This floating platform uses the world's largest X band radar array to protect America against ballistic missile attacks.
What is SBX-1?
This variant of the Littoral Combat Ship uses a stabilized monohull design.
What is the Independence variant?
What is the First Barbary War, Tripolitan War, Barbary Coast War?
Kelsey Grammar stars as Lt. Cmdr. Tom Dodge and is given command of this rusty, WWII era submarine.
What is the USS Stingray?
The phrase meaning a warning shot before battle.
What is a shot across the bow?
This ship was built under a CIA cover story of deep sea mining. Its real purpose was to raise a sunken Soviet submarine.
What is the Hughes Glomar Explorer?
This U.S. Navy fleet was reestablished in 2018 to patrol the Atlantic Ocean.
What is Second Fleet?
The first naval battle where the opposing fleets neither sighted nor fired upon eachother.
What is the Battle of the Coral Sea?
A Soviet submarine captain attempts to defect. To rid the boat of its crew, he tells his crew there is what major emergency.
What is a radiation leak?
The expression for showing your true intentions before battle.
What is to show your true colors?
This radical Soviet submarine used a titanium hull to reach speeds of over 44 knots.
What is k222, project 661, Anchar, Papa class?
These multihull vessels operated by MSC help conduct anti submarine warfare with towed array sensors.
What is TAGOS?
The worlds first submarine used in combat.
In the film Deepwater Horizon (true story), a BP executive pushes to bypass this safety test to keep things on schedule.
What is a negative pressure test?
This term for gossip comes from the water barrel where sailors used to gather to talk.
What is scuttlebutt?