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Naval Questions part 15

C

Collin

Charter Member
Remember, these questions were composed between 1940 and 1945.

Questions

141 What is a de-gaussing girdle?

142 Why is it so called?

143 What are the main functions of a Walrus amphibian?

144 What does a seaman keep in his "ditty box"?

145 What is a "mouldy"?

146 What is a "leatherneck"?

147 What is an otter-board?

148 What is a tiggy-oggy?

149 HMS Victorious is

(a) minesweeper,

(b) a battleship,

(c) a shore establishment,

(d) an aircraft carrier,

(e) a submarine,

(f) how Capn Organ feels after he's got his leg-over once a year?

150 What is a Winger?

Answers next Sunday.

regards Collin:ernae:
 
Good God!, nobody tried this yet?
I'll give it an off-the-cuff go.

141. It's a cable, usually fitted round the hull of a ship to cancel out the magnetic signature of the vessel. Prevents a ground mine from making a bad day even worse.

142. Oh dear, errrr, magnetism is measured in gausses and it reverses the polarity --- or something like that?

143. Spotting for ships guns and fleet communications?

144. Personal items, we wont go into that!

146. A Marine?

147. A wooden board to keep a net open, (in fishing), or a sweep out away from a vessels hull.

149. (d), an aircraft carrier.

150. A rugby player?
 
142 - because it fit round the vessel like a woman's girdle.

143 - gunnery spotting and ship to shore communications originally, but eventually as a rescue A/C especially for downed airmen. four middle eastend and seven home squadrons flew the "shagbat" for rescue purposes, the 277 squadron rescuing 598 survivors.

145 - torpedo

150 - a newbee "taken under the wing" of an old salt.

:woot:
 
Answers

Answers

141 An electrically energized belt which neutralizes a ship's magnetism and gives her protection against magnetic mines.

142 After a German scientist, Carl Frederick Gauss (1777-1855).

143 Reconnaissance, (also air-sea rescue).

144 His personal effects.

145 A torpedo.

146 A Royal Marine.

147 A device which keeps the mine-sweep out on the quarter of the ship, when suspended from the float.

148 A Cornish pasty.

149 An aircraft carrier.

150 Young seaman, "taken under the wing" of an older seamna for instruction.

Well done you 2, most got answered.

regards Collin:ernae:
 
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