Every month we will have a trivia question. Correct answers for the question will be drawn from a hat to determine the monthly winner. The twelve monthly winners will be eligible for the grand prize, including a batch brownies and a feature article on our website about them and sailing.
January's question: 1 Who founded this Connecticut Yacht Club?
your clue: 180 degrees magnetic / value
answer: Edward Southworth
(Off Soundings Club)
solved by Tom Moriarty (NBYC)
Name this Yacht club: opposite of caudal,
and slanderous remarks
answer: Mudheads
Solved by Bob Bruno (DIYC, breaking
the strangle hold on triva questions by
Niantic Bay)
Name this Yacht Club
pyschiatric hospital 520 nm
Greenhaven Yacht Club
answer 520nanometers=green wavelength
pychiatric hospital =haven
Solved by Tom Moriarty (NBYC)
With two wins TOM RULES
Name this yacht club
Breathing kissing Country star, spell of
duty
Solved by Celeste Crissey of Windjammers ...... Western clubs
break even
Name this yacht club
Metamorphic mass Edith Bunker
answer: Stoninton Dinghy Club
Solved by Tom Moriarty again!!!
Name this yacht club:
For Whom the Bells Toll
Pesek
Name The Yacht Club:
Firth: an inlet, anchorage, or BAY
The Ranee: USS NIANTIC CVE-46
The USS Niantic (CVE-46), an escort aircraft carrier, originally designated AVG-46, was redesignated ACV-46, 20 August 1942; laid down by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Co., Tacoma, Washington, 5 January 1943; launched 2 June 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Ray V. Blanco; redesignated CVE-46, 15 July 1943; transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease 8 November 1943; and commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Ranee.
Answer: Niantic Bay Yacht Club
Bob Bruno wins this month's trivia!
G2, Submarine # 27 was an S Class submarine christened "Tuna" built by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport, CT in 1909. She served throughout WW1. In her last days she was being used by the Navy to test ordnance nets and hull pressures caused by depth charges when she flooded during an inspection cruise and sank off of Two Tree Island near Niantic Bay;
The S51 (240 Feet LOA, 903 tons, was also an S Class submarine built by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport, CT in 1925. She met her end in September of 1925 while running on the surface at night in Block Island Sound when she collided with the merchant steamer "City of Rome"
There's a continuing argument about the Surcouf, a French Sub built in 1931 and believed lost in February of 1942. There are two schools of thought:
She was intentionally sunk by the Brits & Americans somewhere near the Race; (there was an article in the New London Day last summer describing a large wreck detected near the Race that was thought possibly to be either the Surcouf or a large wooden sailing ship...nothing confirmed); ...or
She was rammed by an Army transport, the Thompson Lykes, off of Panama - The Thompson Lykes limped into port, but the Surcouf was never heard from again.