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1
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Charles Darwin

A

Beagle

2
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Sir Francis Drake

A

The Golden Hinde

was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580.

3
Q

Pilgrims

A

Mayflower

4
Q

Henry Hudson (Crew Mutinied)

A

Half Moon

5
Q

Captain Bligh

A

The Bounty

6
Q

Admiral Horatio Nelson

A

Victory

7
Q

John Paul Jones

A

Bonhomme Richard

first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolutionary War. Although he made enemies among America’s political elites, his actions in British waters during the Revolution earned him an international reputation which persists to this day. As such, he is sometimes referred to as the “Father of the United States Navy

8
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Christopher Columbus (Flagship)

A

Santa Maria

Nina
Pinta

9
Q

Captain Cook

A

Discovery

10
Q

Captain Ahab

A

Pequod

11
Q

Captain Nemo Sub

A

Nautilus

12
Q

Roald Amundsen

A

Fram

He led the Antarctic expedition (1910–12) that was the first to reach the South Pole, on 14 December 1911. I

13
Q

Thor Heyerdahl’s Raft

A

Kon-Tiki

14
Q

Robert Fulton

A

Clermont

was a colonial American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. In 1800, he was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte to design the “Nautilus”, which was the first practical submarine in history

15
Q

Jacques Yves Cousteau

A

Calypso (Sung about by John Denver)

16
Q

Mayflower’s Sister Ship

A

Speedwell

17
Q

Monitor’s Ironclad Adversary

A

Merrimack (CSA side)

18
Q

Merrimack’s Southern Name

A

Virginia

19
Q

USS Constitution

A

Old Ironsides

20
Q

“Small Vessal” Sailing Ship

A

Caravel

21
Q

Fastest Sailing Ship

A

Clipper

22
Q

Clipper Ship that Set New York to San Francisco Record, 1851

A

Flying CLoud

23
Q

One-Masted Ship

A

Sloop

24
Q

Ship with one mast and a single jib

A

Schooner

25
Q

Four-masted Ship

A

Barquentine

26
Q

Ships that Sailed to Jamestown, 1607

A

Susan Constant, Discovery, Godspeed

27
Q

“Spectral Ship” Destined to Sail the Seas Forever

A

Flying Dutchman

28
Q

Ship of the 1839 Slave Mutiny

A

Amistad

29
Q

Ship that Sank of April 14, 1912

A

Titanic

30
Q

Ship that Caem to the Titanic’s Rescue

A

Carpathia

31
Q

Ship that Sank of May 7, 1915

A

Lusitania

32
Q

Ship that sank in 1956 Collison with Stockholm

A

Andrea Doria

33
Q

Ghost Ship Found Abandoned in 1872

A

Marie Celeste

34
Q

Ship Sunk in Havana Harbor, 1898

A

Maine

35
Q

Titanic’s Sister Ships

A

Brittanic, Olympic

36
Q

Lusitania’s Sister Ship

A

Mauritania

37
Q

Russian Ship Where Crew Mutinied

A

Potempkin

38
Q

Gilligan’s Lost Tour Boat

A

USS Minnow

39
Q

TV Love Boat

A

Pacific Princess

40
Q

Cruise Ship that Capsized off the coast of Italy, 2012

A

Costa Concordia

41
Q

Royal Liner in Service for Cunard

A

Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2)

42
Q

Alaskan Oil Spill Ship 1989

A

Exxon Valdez

43
Q

Ill-Fated German Battleship

A

Bismark

44
Q

First Nuclear-Powered Sub

A

Nautilus

45
Q

Frieghter that sank in Lake Superior, 1975

A

Edmond Fitzgerald

46
Q

Greenpeace Research Vessel, Sank in 1985

A

Rainbow Warrior (by the French!)