I seem to have 'boat rage"only with myself when I either make a feu pas with construction or fluff it up at the lake, oops, silly boy 👦 🤣

Me neither TD👍 I dip out.
My understanding of a 'term' in such cases is a legal definition, not a 'street definition'.
This is simply 'pot pourri', pot luck. 🙄
Not my forte.
G'night All, Doug😎

I am not going to even try to answer this one...they ALL apply on this side of the pond.😂

Look out for a QotD about Columbus' shipwreck Folks😉
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"MIAMI (Reuters) - A shipwreck found off the north coast of Haiti could be the 500-year-old remains of the Santa Maria, which led Christopher Columbus’ famed voyage to the New World, according to a team of marine explorers." Led by Massachusetts marine investigator Barry Clifford.

"His team first discovered the wreck off Haiti in 2003, but it was unable to identify the ship. Yet the discovery of Columbus’ encampment on nearby Haiti and data from the explorer’s diary prove the heavily decayed vessel on the sea floor was the Santa Maria, he now believes."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shipwreck-santamaria-idUKKBN0DT1F720140514

Aye Austin,👍
Beaufort Inlet of N. Carolina.
Q A Revenge ran aground trying to enter the inlet.
Docu about Blackbeard and the shipwreck was on History Channel some years ago.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbeard#Beaufort_Inlet

Maybe North Carolina

Thought Queen Ann Black Besrds ship sank off east coast of usa

Was'nt he the second captain of the Titanic?
Roy

Nay nay DG.
You're thinking of Capt. Archibald Haddock-Smith😂🤣
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--- "Blackbeard on the Titanic, now that would be a tale" ---

Was he?? I thought there was something fishy in the Titanic story!!

Blackbeard on the Titanic, now that would be a tale😆

Sometimes there is but one answer.
Rick

Arrr..I got it mateys!!

Wrong today, didn't have my banana, must study harder 😁

Got the question right today, mostly by process of elimination….

I was looking for Leith docks 🤣

I want a job cleaning mirrors,
I could see myself doing that.

Got lucky and picked A. Not a clue going in.
Rick

Don't know why, but I knew that one. Keeps my average at 90%.
Cheers Colin.

I had to guess, can't go down the middle and I am left wing rather than right, so bingo!
Roy

Bad luck Cash🤔
As some of you will know, I was a 'globetrotter' for my job.
Worked in the port in question in the 2000s, for navy and shipyard, on COMMS refit projects.
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So are we talking in area of sea enclosed, total area including land facilities, largets container port, largest oil terminal, or largest by transit value? By shere luck I hit the right answer, but don't know what it is the largest for.

Blew that one today. Not a world traveler…….🤣

Clearly two were not the answer. Seems strange to be given the answer thought it might be a trick question. In the end decided HMS Royal George had to be the only answer.
Rick

Stab in the dark for that answer 🤣 then thought what if its bluff.

Right ship, right time, wrong place! Daft question🙄
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Good to have an easy one occasionally! Haha 🤣

I can cope with confusing questions when the answer is given. Often like a lot of quizzes, the answer is often more carefully buried in the question. Nothing like openness though.

It was a bit like asking how old I was on my 70th. birthday?

Roy

Well that was easy....


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Confused?was it a trick question this morning or am I missing something 🤔 😕. Plus side is I got it right ✅️

I answered this question which came up as correct! But this ship sank off Portsmouth when being rather badly repaired.
This is a strangely posed question though.

Roy

None of the above Icebreaker LENIN was 1st nuclear powered ship.
Cheers Colin.

I would never have thought to call a submarine a ship! To me a better name for a sub is a vessel😊

My research does not show any of these ships. Should the question have referred ro navel ships?
Austing

USS ( United States Ship ) Nautilus, SSN 571, was commission Sept 1954. Followed by USS Seawolf, SSN 575, in March 1957. These were the first two Nuclear powered vessels in the world.😊

Hi according to the I'net Nautilus 1955 was 4 years before Lenin 1959.

Roy

I think you are right Rockbag.
Preceding USS Long Beach in service by two years.
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I think it was the Icebreaker Lenin.
But of the answers quoted it would be the USS Nautilus.

Hi Nick,
Or His Majesty's Submarine?
In the USN they are named USS ... United States Ship or Submarine?
But referred to as Boats. Originally 'Pig Boats', coz they stank🙈😝
Perhaps 'first vessel' would have been better in the question?
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RN submarines are named HMS, Her Majesty's Ship...

If you just go by date this is OK. Not sure a sub is classed as a ship though?

Terry,
I believe you are correct to have misgivings, whatever you chose, as this is another 'None of the above question'🙄
Two options are obviously wrong, one is a sub and not a ship (they are referred to usually as 'boats'), and the remaining option is also wrong.
There was a nuclear powered cruiser which was ordered one year earlier, commenced building three months earlier and was commissioned three months earlier.
Happy guessing folks, it's basically down to 50/50 depending on interpretation of 'ship'.
Cheers, All, Doug

Even though I got it right am still unsure it was the right answer

As usual Doug you are correct, I hope I don't get demoted for my minor fopar.
Cheers Colin.

Hi Gary, Marky, the title of Question of the day has it's own undertones. Many of us including your good selves are coming to realise that the answers are also questionable. This is a whole new approach and concept in quizzes!

This is not Eggheads or the like, the discussion for us is challenging the answers!
In all a much more sophisticated idea and more interesting as well.
Rarely are we in agreement with the answers given, although a president was set when Titanic was the correct answer!

With Eggheads you get the feeling that Kevin checks the answers before the broadcast. On QoD we check the answers after the event.
Ask your self where do you learn more, the TV quizzes or our own QoD? Going down the middle does not work on our quiz, you have to decide whether the right answer is there first and then if not what does Joe Public think?

The scoring proceeds with the day's answer dropping off an answer 30 days old and counting in your answer of the day %. No such arrangement exists for the Country's score where a wrong answer haunts you forever.

QED ( for non-latin gentleman Quod Erat Demonstrandom, translated by schoolboys as Quite Easily Done)
Roy

T'other way round Colin,😉
Great Britain 1845, Servia 1881.
Great Britain is the best option here for 'the wrong'n deemed correct'🙄 as the other ships all came much later. Another 'None of the above' job.😐

Roy is dead right about the advent of steel mass production.
Starting when dear Henry patented his converter in 1856, some 10 years after the launch of Great Britain.
There was an interesting docu-film about the development and rivalries on History Channel a few years ago.
Cheers, Doug 😎

Confusing, as it couldn't possibly be Titanic again it had to be SS Great Britain even though it was made of iron and not steel. The true answer and you have a choice of two was either Servia or Arabic both launched in 1881.

shouldn't Servia have been on the list ,1881 if memory serves me right, Servia also the first liner with electric lighting .

None of the offered answers, ss great Britain was well after.
Servia was first steel hulled liner launched 1881.
Some earlier were iron clad not steel.
Cheers Colin.