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Battleship Warfare Quiz

This quiz tests your knowledge of battleships, their historical significance, and technological advancements related to naval warfare.

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1 What does the following picture show?  Profile drawing of HMS Nelson commissioned 1927   The firepower of a battleship demonstrated by USS Iowa (ca. 1984)   The Imperial Japanese Navy's Yamato (1940), seen in 1941, and her sister ship Musashi (1940) were the heaviest battleships in history.   The American Texas (1912) is the only preserved example of a Dreadnought-type battleship that dates to the time of the original HMS Dreadnought.

2 What does the following picture show?  Pre-Dreadnought battleship USS Texas, built in 1892, was the first battleship of the U.S. Navy. Photochrom print c. 1898.   A preliminary design for the Imperial Japanese Navy's Satsuma was an "all-big-gun" design.   The Imperial Japanese Navy's Yamato (1940), seen in 1941, and her sister ship Musashi (1940) were the heaviest battleships in history.   USS Missouri launches a Tomahawk missile during Operation Desert Storm.

3 The development of the strategic bomber meant that the navy was no longer the only method of projecting power overseas, and the development of the ________ meant that battleships had a rival for the resources available for capital ship construction.

4 Steam power was gradually introduced to the navy in the first half of the 19th century, initially for small craft and later for ________.

5 The first major change to the ship of the line concept was the introduction of ________ as an auxiliary propulsion system.

6 By the 1890s the Royal Navy had developed the first ________, small ships designed to intercept and drive off any attacking torpedo boats.

7 Following battleship designs that were influenced by HMS Dreadnought were referred to as "________".

8 recommissioned all four Iowa class battleships for the ________ and the New Jersey for the Vietnam War.

9 What does the following picture show?  German High Seas Fleet during World War I   Pennsylvania leading battleship Colorado and cruisers Louisville, Portland, and Columbia into Lingayen Gulf, Philippines, January 1945   A preliminary design for the Imperial Japanese Navy's Satsuma was an "all-big-gun" design.   Vittorio Veneto (1940)

10 Scharnhorst and Gneisenau surprised and sank the aircraft carrier Glorious off western ________ in June 1940.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Andrei Pervozvanny class battleships were the only Old World battleships fitted with lattice masts.
  • the K-1000 class was a hoax class of battleship made up by the Soviet Union at the start of the Cold War as propaganda.
  • the Kaiser Friedrich III-class battleships (SMS Kaiser Barbarossa pictured) introduced the standard configuration for pre-dreadnought battleships in the German Kaiserliche Marine.
  • the U.S. Third Fleet sank all of Japan's remaining undamaged battleships and heavy cruisers during the bombing of Kure in July 1945.
  • the American Florida class battleships were the first U.S. battleships equipped with a steam turbine propulsion system.
  • the Kii and Number 13 class battleships were to be part of Japan's eight-eight fleet.
  • the Soviets scuttled the battleship Svobodnaya Rossiia (pictured) on 19 June 1918 in Novorossiysk harbor rather than turn her over to the Germans as required by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
  • the turrets from the lead ship of the Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleships (remains pictured) were salvaged after she sank and used for defending Sevastopol during World War II.
  • the British aircraft carrier HMS Furious left her berth next to the battleship Royal Oak in Scapa Flow the day before Royal Oak was sunk by the German submarine U-47.
  • the French battleship Jauréguiberry had a torpedo air chamber accidentally explode between her propellers when she fired her stern torpedo tube in 1905, flooding her steering compartment.
  • the four Brandenburg class battleships were the first ocean-going battleships built by the German Imperial Navy.
  • the three Habsburg class battleships were the first ocean-going battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy since the ironclad SMS Tegetthoff of the 1870s.
  • when the pre-dreadnought battleship Connecticut (pictured) ran aground in 1907, the U.S. Navy tried to cover it up, prompting Congress to consider an official inquiry.
  • the first seaplanes to be used in combat were based on the Austro-Hungarian battleships of the Radetzky class in 1912 (the lead ship Radetzky pictured).
  • the crew of the Russian battleship Georgii Pobedonosets mutinied themselves when they confronted the mutinous battleship Potemkin in Odessa Harbor in June 1905.
  • the French battleship Masséna was sunk as a breakwater during the Gallipoli Campaign.
  • the German battleship SMS Kaiser damaged the British battleship HMS Warspite at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, forcing the Warspite to withdraw from the battle.
  • the Italian protected cruiser Giovanni Bausan was designed to destroy battleships.
  • the German battleship SMS König sank the Russian battleship Slava during Operation Albion in 1917.
  • the French Navy's Le Napoléon (1850) was the first steam battleship in history.
  • Kotetsu, a Japanese ironclad battleship, was originally intended to be Stonewall of the Confederate States Navy but was not delivered until after the end of the American Civil War.
  • pre-dreadnought battleships saw their most notable service in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905.
  • SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm (pictured), a German-built pre-dreadnought battleship, was sold to the Ottoman Empire, renamed Heireddin Barbarossa, and sunk by a British submarine during World War I.
  • HMS Benbow's (pictured) class, the Iron Dukes, were the first Royal Navy battleships to mount anti-aircraft guns.
  • Dupuy de Lôme was a 19th century French naval architect, who developed the first steam battleship, the first sea-going ironclad warship, and the first large airship in history.
  • German sailor Max Reichpietsch, who served on the battleship SMS Friedrich der Große, was executed by firing squad in 1917 for anti-war agitation in the German Navy.
  • SMS Schleswig-Holstein, one of the five Deutschland-class battleships (pictured), fired the first shots of World War II during the Battle of Westerplatte.
  • SMS Zähringen, one of the five Wittelsbach-class battleships (pictured), was rebuilt after World War I as a radio-controlled target ship and destroyed by British Royal Air Force bombers during World War II.
  • a crowd of 20,000 rioted in an attempt to secure the release of the mutinous crew of the battleship SMS Helgoland (pictured) in November 1918.
  • after the Soviet battleship Marat (pictured) was sunk during World War II by German Stukas, it was raised and used as a floating artillery battery.
  • the battleship Bayern was the first German warship to mount 15 inch guns.
  • the battleship USS Recruit (pictured) was built in New York City's Union Square.
  • the battleship Satsuma of the Imperial Japanese Navy was the first ship in the world to be designed and laid down as an "all-big-gun" battleship, although the British HMS Dreadnought was eventually the first one to be completed in 1906.
  • the Austro-Hungarian battleships Habsburg, Babenberg, Árpád, Prinz Eugen, Tegetthoff and Viribus Unitis participated in the bombardment of Ancona.
  • it took two weeks and 23 vessels to free the battleship Missouri after she ran aground (pictured) on 17 January 1950.
  • aircraft from 825 Naval Air Squadron (aircraft pictured) carried out attacks against several German battleships during the Second World War.
  • in April 1919, the crew of the French Courbet-class battleship Jean Bart (pictured) mutinied while helping defend Sevastopol from the advancing Bolsheviks.
  • French protests caused the Russians to award the contract for the Gangut-class battleship to a Russian firm rather than the German winner of the 1908 international design contest.
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