Yes, I was tempted to go with Iron and then did a little research as one does, to find that the ancient Egyptians used copper fastenings on their boats, and if it was good enough for them then the first metal used was Copper and not Iron.

We have a new learning item here. I thought I had seen copper being used on exhibited Viking ships and I was right.

But archeologists decided that for reconstruction purposes copper would not damage the wood as iron eventually does. Iron rusts and increases in size and splits the wood.

Good question.
Roy

My average is looking up! Helps that the questions have been somewhat easier…

Ahhhh the ladies of the world…. Sometimes a very difficult creature to understand
There was a multi page book out along time ago…. Men are from mars and ladies from Venus..( something like that, I wasn’t paying attention again ). It was all about women and what makes them and what they want.
Now men on the other hand, our version was on a sticky note…. Food, sex, booze & boats…. You pick the order you want.
Now, I’m coming up on 30 years of marriage in October as it stands this week…. It could all change in the blink of an eye…. My wife keeps telling me she’s young enough the remarry and that her next husband will appreciate everything she got in the settlement….

“If anyone has any tips on how to get through to the ladies I would appreciate it”

Roy…What you are failing to understand is!!…
“We are all married to the same woman,they just have different names!!”😂😂

Regards
Bill.

Learn to listen and keep your thoughts to yourself. If pressed I always ask what do you think? then agree as long as it doesn't involve my money.
dave976

Just to let you know SWMBO liked it. In fact so much that she asked if I had bought the ingredients already done!!!! When I assured her that I had done all preparation myself she was surprised.

Now we have been married 60 years next month, in the beginning, her cooking was not good and after 6 months I took over the cooking and have done it ever since.

I clear off to Oz for 6 weeks each year, when I get back I ask if all well and she says the food was not so good!

If anyone has any tips on how to get through to the ladies I would appreciate it?

Roy

Hi there are just the 2 of us and so I make simpler meals, except when family come then roast tatties are requested!

Today is stir fry and chicken coated with a stuffing mix with a sweet and sour sauce.

Roy

My average rages up and down I suppose measured over the last 30 days some times a right answer is dropped off and sometimes a wrong one. Not sure what happens if you decide not to answer though.

I think we used to call them rolling averages when I was a working person.

I applied it to my working life starting from when I left school. At the moment my working life against total years since leaving school is running at 55.7%. This in rolling years rather than months. With guaranteed non-working years dropping off each subsequent year.

I am hoping to get this figure down to 25.6% when I shall be 100 years old! I look forward to my life now devoted to (my dear wife) after all she may read this, and making models.
Thank you to all those who are or will be paying taxes to enable this.

I for my part will smile on them quietly as they learn what I and others could have told them many years ago.

Oh dear I think I better get on with Sunday rather than sit here and drink coffee.

Regards
Roy

Enjoy Roy, what's for lunch- something including roast tatties? 😀

Nice to start the week with Titanic in the answers!

Sunny here as well. Got some work to do on yacht, model that is, but preparing lunch first.

Roy

Another nice qotd, I can manage this on a Sunday morning 😀

Got the wordless first try, without any input from Teresa!! I had a lucky guess. The QOTD was easy too. I’ll probably botch it up next go-around…..🤣🤣

Roy will be happy again today.
His favourite option is back again😁

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That was my impression Roy.
Not the first time I've had that deja vu feeling when reading a new QOTD.
Doug😎

Dead reckoning can be measured using three accelerometers for up/down, left/right, forward and backwards, each signal can then be integrated for velocity and then integrated again for position. Position found using dead reckoning.

Worked on these and on gyro systems such as those used on the V2 and later missiles.

Hate to say it but it sounds familiar!
Roy

Dead easy Doogle😁

Least I got the Question Right
Trev

A nice easy one this morning, not to taxing 😊

4 IJN carriers were sunk at two of the listed battles, but only one was in 1942😉
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Thanks Doug 👍

Watch more documentaries Doogle😉
This is the kind of info you can pick up in them.
Today's answer was also frequently in the news during the Corona lockdown of Asian ports.
Cheers, Doug 😎

Lucky guess this morning which was wrong 🤣 ,maybe one day I'll brush up on my port knowledge and add it to the bucket list 😉

Hi Marky,
You're right about the merchant vessel, TS King Edward was a passenger steamer operating on the Clyde from 1901 to 1951.
But while researching HMS Dreadnought some time ago (for another member) I was astounded to learn that, whereas she was the first capital ship with turbines, the first naval vessels with turbines were actually experimental Destroyers HMS Viper and Cobra. Both launched in 1899 and both lost in 1901.
Viper ran aground near Alderney and Cobra broke her back, due to a construction weakness, in a storm off Cromer.

Yes Roy, Parson's (name sound familiar?) launch Turbinia shocked the maritime world. Especially the RN when she ran rings around the Fleet Review, for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee at Spithead in 1897.😮
At 34 knots she made the RN ship chasing her look silly. Reports suggest that Victoria 'was NOT amused' 😠😁
But the demo hit it's mark and resulted in the orders for the two trials destroyers.
Cheers, Doug😎

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_(1906)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbinia

Hi probably you are correct. As Turbinia was a demonstration ship and suitably shocked the maritime world.
Roy

Just shows you I thought the 1st turbine powered merchant vessel was TS King Edward a Clyde steamer and the First Admiralty ship was HMS Dreadnaught .

Being a bit of a wing nut growing up, my hero’s weren’t sports figures. Nope, racing drivers, aiviators, PT boat crews….don’t know how many times I’d read “A Duel of Eagles” before I was 14, or the exploits of the AVG, the Flying Tigers. Got into a huge argument with another guy when I was a reservist, he said the Battle of Britain really wasn’t a big deal, and that the US won the war….I reminded him of what might have transpired had England fallen, including the lack of, or at the least a serious curtailment of lend lease and supplies to the Russians, and did he forget about that too? He made some off hand remark and I think I called him an idiot…anyway, there’s quite a few of us that know that winning the war was an all hands, all Allied job. And I don’t think we across the pond thank y’all enough.
Cash

Turbinia

Thanks, Doug👍👍
Trev

But we shall never give up Bill👍
First time I heard the whole speech, not just the 'we shall fight on the beaches' part.
Most moving and illuminating!
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iGNORE THE SUBTITLES; THEY ARE TOTALLY INACCURATE AND ABSURD!

Gentlemen.
“Never in the field of human questions of the day has so much conjecture been discussed by so many to so few”

It is but a light hearted quiz after all,but certainly stirs the feelings and thoughts 😂😂😂.
Regards
Bill.

I thought the curved part of the Hull was the Bilge....🤔

It fits because it is correct Rick👍
The "point" that Dave mentions would be one on the 'Sheerline' which is indeed the line at which the deck and the hull join, It is of course only continuous on the so called flush-deckers.
A prime example being the Iowa class as seen in the attached photo of USS New Jersey.
Another being the Fletcher class destroyers.
But why is there a sheerline?
Because it follows the 'Sheer' of the hull, which defines the longitudinal deviation of the deck level from the baseline of a flat deck.
The sheer being the raising of the deck (and hence hull) fore and aft to improve sea worthiness by increasing the enclosed volume, and thus the buoyancy of the vessel.
This helps to reduce longitudinal pitching and amount of water shipped in heavy seas.
First introduced on early sailing ships.

Tumblehome describes a reduction of the beam of the hull from it broadest point to the deck level. Thus is not relevant to flat sided or continuous flare hulls.
I've never heard of the term 'Rocker' (apart from the obvious) but I can see the allusion to a rocking horse. Sounds uncomfortable in high seas🤔
Alles klar Herr Kommissar?😉
Cheers, Doug 😎
PS For some reason the site displays the line dwg with a transparent background☹️
Just right click it to open in a new tab and you can view it black on white as it should be!

Sorry DW sheer may not be correct but it's the only one that fits.Rick

The correct answer is not one of the choices. The sheer is the point where the hull meets the deck. Tumblehome is the name for the curvature at the sheer. Rocker refers to the amount of curvature in the bottom of the hull along its length from bow to stern at the Keel. So, either Rocker or Tumblehome could be considered correct. I chose Keel, because it is the closest choice of the options given.

Wonderful to have a laugh.But again so BAD👍👍👍👍👍
Rick

Why does a chicken coop have 2 doors…..because if it had 4 doors It’d be a chicken SEDAN😂🤣🤣

That's so BAD👍👍👍👍👍
Rick

😴😂

Q. Why do cows have bells?

A. Because their horns don't work.

I thought it was for blowing the fog out of the way.😁

Hi at last I am over 50% 😜

I like those questions that make me chuckle. 😀

I was almost sure it was to communicate with Pond Life, but that wasn't an option! 😊

Interesting answers for this mornings question 🤣

Just to clarify that Nick. The number of containers a ship carries is measured in TEU's. Which means Twenty foot Equivalent Units. Many are 40 foot as was mentioned.

Our club has 2 off 20 foot containers as storage units. They can be bought ready to use for storage, waterproofed and painted with locks that have been covered for security.

regards
Roy

20ft or 40ft Dry containers are most common on any container with a small percentage of the others, The biggest Container ships can carry up to 24,300 20ft containers.👍

Well I was feeling a lil saucy after reading the question. I guessed a dry can since most things you want to keep dry in transit.
And what do ya know…. It’s correct

I think the correct answer depends upon the weather and sea conditions......
I did not see "wet container" as an option though😁