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Quiz
- What sort of traditional folk song was commonly sung by sailors in rhythm with their work?
- What term is used for the system of ropes, cables and chains that hold a ship's sails up?
- What common name is given to a structure in the upper part of the main mast used as a lookout point?
- What can be a suitable place for a ship to anchor and also a large city in Alaska?
- What term is used for the right side of a vessel facing forward?
- What exactly is the orlop on a ship?
- An anemometer is an instrument used to measure what?
- What navigational instrument is used to measure a ship's latitude?
- What nautical term from Dutch for "hold on" means to stop, or cease from whatever is being done?
- What is the term for a ship's officer responsible for maintenance of the ship and its equipment?
- What word is used to describe heavy material positioned low in the hull to provide stability?
- A personal flotation device used in World War II was named after which 1930s actress?
- In nautical contexts, what word beginning with 'C' is a device for securing a rope?
- What is the name given to a series of boat races and also a brand of outdoor clothing?
- This is a type of sail that balloons outward and also the name of a south coast tower?
- What does the letter 'R' stand for in SONAR?
- What term in ropework means the forming of a semi-permanent joint between two ropes by untwisting and then interweaving their strands?
- What 'B' is the stand on which the ship's compass is mounted?
- What 'H' is a sort of knot used to attach a rope to a fixed object?
- What terms describes a ship when its crew deliberately sinks it?
- What 'G' is a plastic or metal ring inserted in canvas to prevent wear?
- What is a growler?
- What is defined as debris in the water that was not deliberately thrown overboard, often as a result from a shipwreck?
- A fathom is a unit of length equal to how many feet?
- What name is given to the lengthwise structure along the base of a ship, supporting the framework of the whole?
- What name is given to a line used to control and adjust a sail?
- What name is given to an area near the equator where very little surface wind is present?
- Which English city is associated with a phrase meaning in seamanlike and good order with reference to the condition of a ship?
- What's the well known name for a vessel with two hulls?
- What is the name of the machine used on ships to raise and lower a ship's anchor?
Answers
- Shanty, or sea shanty
- Rigging
- A crow's nest
- Anchorage
- Starboard
- The lowest deck in a ship
- Wind speed
- Sextant
- Avast
- Boatswain
- Ballast
- Mae West
- Cleat
- Regatta
- Spinnaker (also Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth)
- Ranging (SONAR is an acronym for "Sound Navigation And Ranging")
- Splicing
- Binnacle
- Hitch knot
- Scuttled
- Grommet
- A small iceberg
- Flotsam
- 6 feet
- Keel
- Halyard
- Doldrums
- Bristol (Bristol fashion has its origin when Bristol was the major west coast port)
- Catamaran
- Windlass