Question For Fun

[norwestsailer]

Hi everyone

Here's 2 questions for you

This boat is a replica

Can you name this boat?

What was the original boat famous for?

No Prizes

Steve

[Auzzee]

Don't know what the ship is, but the bloke in the dinghy ( ) is having a hard time keeping up!

[JeanneP]

One of Columbus' boats? Nina? Pinta? ???????

[BJSmith]

Originally Posted by JeanneP

One of Columbus' boats? Nina? Pinta? ???????

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Could it be the Amistad" a gaff topsail schooner?

Famous for a slave revolt onboard? 1829?

[norwestsailer]

Originally Posted by BJSmith

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Could it be the Amistad" a gaff topsail schooner?

Famous for a slave revolt onboard? 1829?

It is HMS Pickles

After the battle of Trafalgar, a fast little sloop named HMS Pickle carried the dispatches concerning the great victory and Nelson's sad death.

I spotted her last year sailing up the English Channel, its surprising how small she is, but she is lovely site under sail

I have a few more would you like to see them

Steve

[Trim50]

Oh man! I was just going to say HMS Pickle

[norwestsailer]

Originally Posted by Trim50

Oh man! I was just going to say HMS Pickle

I bet you were

[Auzzee]

You're a napoleonic crewman off LeFrogue and you're having a beer in the pub with your mates after a hard day of broadsides and grapeshot. How bad would you feel when you have to tell everyone you have just been clouted by a pommie crew off a boat called, the......PICKLE?!

[norwestsailer]

Hi

Has anybody seen this old girl I dont know her name but she was heading down Channel with a force 10 forecast earlier in the year. The cliffs in the background are the White Cliffs of Dover!!

Cheers

Steve

[Nausikaa]

Hi,

This one I believe I can solve. It is the Russian barque Sedov. She was built in Kiel in 1921 as the Magdalenea and eventually found herway to the Soviet Union as part of the war reparations. She was renamed Sedov after the explorer Georgy Sedov

Nice idea with these "competitions".

Let me add one of my own....the name of this ship please, in which I saied about 15 years ago? The national flag flying at the stern should be a good guide



Aye

Stephen

Yacht NAUSIKAA

[norwestsailer]

Hi Steve

Is it the Swedish Training Vessel Falken

Steve

[Nausikaa]

Hi Steve,

Spot on!

The navy has two of these, Gladen and Falken. this is Falken.

They are steel hulled vessels, grossly under-rigged and based upon the design of the fishing schooners of the Grand banks. Despite being under-rigged, I once was doing 8 knots on Falken running ahead of a full storm without a stitch of canvas set.

Anyone any other interesting ships to identify?

Aye

Stephen

yacht NAUSIKAA

[norwestsailer]

Hi Steve

Another one for you

This was used as a setting for a recent TV series?

It is up for sale at the moment for £3.000,000.oo GBP

Wouldn't mind the boat but the crews wages would be expensive.

This is one of my favourite piccies!!

Good Luck

Steve

[Nausikaa]

Hi,

At a guess, I would say that she is H.M.S. Bounty. Am I right?

Anyone out there got more puzzles to solve. If not, I will dig out some more pics.

Aye

Stephen

Yacht NAUSIKAA

[norwestsailer]

Stephen

Sorry have another guess

Although lots of members are looking we are the only 2 playing.

Steve

[Harbor_Pilot]

Here's an intersting one.

[JeanneP]

Originally Posted by Harbor_Pilot

Here's an intersting one.

USS Constitution, i.e., Old Ironsides? Out for her annual sortie to turn herself around?

[norwestsailer]

Originally Posted by Nausikaa

Hi,

At a guess, I would say that she is H.M.S. Bounty. Am I right?

Hi Stephen

Its The Grand Turk

She was used in the making of "Hornblower"

steve

[norwestsailer]

Originally Posted by Harbor_Pilot

Here's an intersting one.

Hi

Thats a nice shot wouldnt like to be on the receivig end of them cannons.

Heres another one

Didn't want to get to close to this beasty,

Cheers

Steve

[BJSmith]

I'm guessing HMS Ark Royal ?

Keep the boat quizz going...