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American Warships
You Gotta Know These American Warships
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Better known as "Old Ironsides" | USS Constitution |
| Year USS Constitution launched | 1797 |
| City the Constitution launched from | Boston |
| War where Constitution first saw action as squadron flagship (1799–1801) | Quasi-War with France |
| War of 1812 ship retired from active duty in 1846 | USS Constitution |
| Poem that saved the Constitution from the scrap yard | “Old Ironsides” |
| Author of the poem "Old Ironsides" | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Current status and location of the USS Constitution | A floating museum in Boston |
| Ship built at what is now the Norfolk Naval Shipyard between 1798–1799 | USS Chesapeake |
| British ship that attacked the Chesapeake off Cape Henry in 1807 | Leopard |
| Duel of commodores caused by the Chesapeake attack | James Barron and Stephen Decatur |
| British frigate that captured the Chesapeake off Boston in 1813 | Shannon |
| Dying words of Captain James Lawrence | “Don’t give up the ship” |
| Commander of the USS Chesapeake when it was captured in 1813 | Captain James Lawrence |
| Commodore who achieved a decisive victory at the Battle of Lake Erie | Oliver Hazard Perry |
| American control of the Great Lakes was ensured by this battle | Battle of Lake Erie |
| Perry's flagship, which was severely damaged during the Battle of Lake Erie | USS Lawrence |
| Ship Perry transferred to during the Battle of Lake Erie to defeat the British | USS Niagara |
| Perry's famous message to General William Henry Harrison | “We have met the enemy and they are ours.” |
| Original name of the ironclad CSS Virginia | USS Merrimack |
| Union Navy yard burned in April 1861 | Gosport Navy Yard (Norfolk) |
| Union warship rammed and sunk by the Virginia | USS Cumberland |
| Union warship set fire to and sunk by the Virginia | USS Congress |
| Union ironclad sent to end the Virginia's rampage | USS Monitor |
| Duration of the battle between the Monitor and Virginia | 3½ hours |
| Ship the Virginia attempted to ram before running aground | USS Minnesota |
| Ultimate fate of the CSS Virginia | Destroyed by Confederates to prevent capture |
| Ultimate fate of the USS Monitor | Sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina |
| Year that First Maine, a second-class armored battleship, launched | 1889 |
| Media type that inflamed public opinion after the Maine disaster | “Yellow journalism” |
| USS Arizona was a lead ship of this class | Pennsylvania class |
| Time of the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor | Just before 8:00 am |
| Location of the USS Arizona during the Pearl Harbor attack | Battleship Row |
| Part of the Arizona hit by an 800-kilogram bomb | Just forward of turret two |
| Number of crew members killed on the Arizona | 1,177 |
| Year the USS Arizona memorial opened | 1962 |
| USS Missouri was the last battleship completed by the United States of this class | Iowa class |
| Sponsor of the USS Missouri | Miss Margaret Truman (Harry S. Truman's daughter) |
| Nickname of the USS Missouri | “Mighty Mo” |
| Admiral whose flagship the Missouri became | Admiral Halsey |
| Ship chosen as the site of the formal surrender of the Empire of Japan | USS Missouri |
| Year Congress authorized construction of the world's first nuclear-powered submarine | 1951 |
| Name given to the first nuclear-powered submarine | USS Nautilus (SSN-571) |
| Top-secret operation name for the first crossing of the North Pole by ship | Operation Sunshine |
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