Question of the Hour

[Fishbone Jones]

Also the Staghound & Fox

 

[3rd Herd]

Excellent answers by all.
Muffin nice work in using citing. Recceguy and Redleaf I suppose are using the common knowledge caveat of us dinosaurs. I was looking at in particular the Ram, Kangaroo and Grizzly and of course the Skink.
Source: Tank Production in Canada
http://www.forces.ca/dhh/downloads/ahq/ahq038.pdf

Okay someone else's turn to play Bob Barker.

 

[redleafjumper]

I should have remembered the skink!  I have a pretty good collection of WW2 micro-armour and I have long been a student of military history.  My answers are therefore usually based on all the trivia stored in the grey matter.

What were the designation and names of ships of the Tribal class in World War 2?

 

[DG-41]

The Ram chassis generated a vertitable menagerie:

- Ram tank

- Kangaroo APC

- Badger flamethrower

- Wallaby ammo carrier

http://www.mapleleafup.org/vehicles/cac/ram.html

DG

 

[Danjanou]

I should have remembered the skink!  I have a pretty good collection of WW2 micro-armour and I have long been a student of military history.  My answers are therefore usually based on all the trivia stored in the grey matter.

What were the designation and names of ships of the Tribal class in World War 2?

I’m hoping you mean the Canadian ones only. Easy one for the son of a former RCN type.

G07 HMCS Athabaskan commissioned 03/02/43 Sunk 25/08/44
G63 HMCS Haida commissioned 30/08/43 paid off 11/10/63
G24 HMCS Huron commissioned 19/07/43 paid off 30/04/63
G89 HMCS Iroquois commissioned 30/1/42 paid off 24/10/62

http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/canada/ww2/tribal/

Would you also like the names and pennant numbers of the 4 completed immediately after WW2?

 

[stukirkpatrick]

What were the designation and names of ships of the Tribal class in World War 2?

BAH beat me to it...

What is the sole surviving tribal class, and where is it located?

 

[3rd Herd]

Haida
on the TO waterfront.

 

[redleafjumper]

Nice work Danjanou, and yes I was referring to the RCN. 

There is a large WW2 ship moored in the Pool of London as a floating museum and memorial.  What is the name and class of this vessel?

 

[3rd Herd]

having walked her decks the same as the Haida in Toronto. I believe you are looking for a battle crusier by the name of HMS BELFAST.

 

[mo-litia]

That's the one, 3rd Herd

 

[redleafjumper]

It is indeed the HMS Belfast.

Where was the surrender agreement to end World War 2 signed?

 

[stukirkpatrick]

USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay?

 

[Danjanou]

Haida
on the TO waterfront.

Nope, they moved it to Hamilton in 2003. That was part of the deal for the need refit/repairs to be covered by the Fed Govt. You're all smart boys and girls, care to remember who was Heritage Minister then? 8)

http://hmcshaida.ca/

BTW HMS Belfast is a Cruiser (a Light Cruiser actually baseed on her main gun size) not a Battlecruiser, as our Naval brethren would point out totally different beasties

http://www.london33.com/touristinfo.php?contentid=61

 

[geo]

Sheila Copps... from steel town

 

[redleafjumper]

The HMS Belfast is indeed a light cruiser of the Southampton class.  She and her sister ship the Edinburgh were slightly better armed that the other Southamptons  having more AA armament of twelve 4" guns rather than the eight guns of the other 8 vessels of the class. Her main armament was twelve 6" guns rather than the eight of earlier light cruisers.

The Japanese surrender that ended WW2 was indeed signed on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay.  Kirkpatrick is correct.

For what command and action is Captain Fegen famous?

 

[baboon6]

Capt. Edward Fogerty Fegen RN commanded the armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay. He is famous for the action in November 1940 against the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. The converted liner was escorting a convoy of 37 ships from Halifax to the UK when it was attacked by the Scheer. Captain Fegen ordered the convoy to scatter and took his unarmoured, lightly-armed ship into action against the German raider. The outcome was ineveitable- Jervis Bay was sunk- but Fegen had succeeded in buying time for the merchantmen in his charge. Scheer did sink 7 of them but the rest managed to escape. Captain Fegen, who was killed in the action, was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.

What was the Laconia incident?

 

[muffin]

German submarine U-156 is on patrol in the South Atlantic off the bulge of West Africa midway between Liberia and Ascension Island. Peering through his periscope, Lieutenant Commander Werner Hartenstein, U-boat ace and holder of Germany's highest military honour, the Knights Cross, spots a large allied target sailing alone.  He attacks and soon his torpedoes have sent the 20,000-ton ship to the bottom of the ocean.  But Hartenstein's satisfaction at the kill soon turns to horror.  Surfacing in the hope of capturing the ship's senior officers and gleaning intelligence information, Hartenstein is appalled to see over two thousand people struggling in the water.  For the target U-156 had just sunk was the former Cunard White Star liner, the Laconia.  Unbeknownst to Hartenstein, the Laconia was carrying not only her regular crew of 136 but also 80 British women and children, 268 British soldiers, 160 Free Polish troops and 1800 Italian prisoners of war. 

http://wernerhartenstein.tripod.com/U156Laconia.htm

 

[stukirkpatrick]

Following the navy theme, what stunning practice of Canadian democracy was held in the Pacific Ocean on 7 May, 1945?

 

[Danjanou]

Following the navy theme, what stunning practice of Canadian democracy was held in the Pacific Ocean on 7 May, 1945?

The crew of the light cruiser HMCS Uganda then serving with the RN Pacific Fleet in operations against Japan held a vote sanctioned by the Cdn Govt.  asking if they were willing to serve agains the Japanese.

Much the RCN’s surprise and the RN’s disgust they voted no, and the ship was orderd home and had to be quickly replaced by another one.

 

[redleafjumper]

Some great nautical questions; the Jervis Bay answer from baboon6 is completely correct.

On August 25, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy ordered that a seaplane tender be converted into a light cruiser with armament of 44 torpedo tubes.
Name this ship, the British submarine that seriously damaged, but did not sink her, and how this unique vessel later ended her days.