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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 6:02 am Post subject: |
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What does the HMS Guerriere, HMS Java, HMS Pictou, HMS Cyane , HMS Levant have in common other than being Royal Navy ships. |
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 10:23 am Post subject: |
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Pirate wrote: | What does the HMS Guerriere, HMS Java, HMS Pictou, HMS Cyane , HMS Levant have in common other than being Royal Navy ships. |
They look like they are all French names ? |
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 10:54 am Post subject: |
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The British often kept the name of a ship and at least two of these ships were once French war ships but the Royal Navy captured them. Hint one ship defeated all of these ships. What ship was it. |
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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OK I make it easy on everybody. Those British ships all have one thing in common other than being ships that were in service for the Royal navy. They all were involved in a battle with what is now known as he world's oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat. She is still afloat at this very moment. Her maiden voyage: was July 22 1798 and her later defeat of the HMS Guerriere [a a 38-gun frigate that was once a French warship until the English captured her] gave her a nick name. So what does those five British ships have in common? Answer They were all defeated by what ship? |
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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Pirate wrote: | OK I make it easy on everybody. Those British ships all have one thing in common other than being ships that were in service for the Royal navy. They all were involved in a battle with what is now known as he world's oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat. She is still afloat at this very moment. Her maiden voyage: was July 22 1798 and her later defeat of the HMS Guerriere [a a 38-gun frigate that was once a French warship until the English captured her] gave her a nick name. So what does those five British ships have in common? Answer They were all defeated by what ship? |
Sorry went to sleep during the night.
not sure if I have the Constitution to answer this question. |
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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The USS Constitution . Your turn Spart |
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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Born 1758
Died 1805
Buried 1806
Who Am I? |
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 4:09 am Post subject: |
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The funeral was delayed because he died at sea, but I used google so I don't think my answer counts.
Care for some brandy? No, not from that cask. _________________ " ... the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it. " George Eliot |
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 10:40 am Post subject: |
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Mr. Blue wrote: | The funeral was delayed because he died at sea, but I used google so I don't think my answer counts.
Care for some brandy? No, not from that cask. |
Was that the origin of the saying :
"In a Pickle "?
or
"Right in the Pickle Barrel" ?
So Mr Blue gave a 2 good clue's - this person died at sea - and was important enough that the body was pickled in brandy for the voyage home. |
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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Could've been Horatio Nelson. |
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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Pirate wrote: | Could've been Horatio Nelson. |
Yes it was - your turn Pirate. |
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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A man makes a claim that he can predict the exact score of every football game, before it begins. And he's always right. How's that possible? |
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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Pirate wrote: | A man makes a claim that he can predict the exact score of every football game, before it begins. And he's always right. How's that possible? |
The score of a football game before it starts is always zero to zero. |
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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Thats right. Your turn fleet. |
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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Where was Saint Patrick born? |
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