All you Canadians on the East Answer Question at a little after 8 P/M that way no one will be sending e-mails to remind you to answer the question of the day I think the question is put on the web site at 12 A/M in England I think because it's 10:10 P/M In Canada answer it in 2 hours .

Got this one correct today, just looked the the suggested answers and remembered the time lines of most then chose.

We learn the facts but not the dates!!

I chose the only answer that seemed feasible for the date given, and for once, I got it right!

Hmm!
If I'm not mistaken the Imperial German Navy was already using gyrocompasses (compassi?🤔) in 1908?
Close enough Mr AI.🙄
Ciao, Doug😎

Finally, got this one correct😊👍

The whole K-129 disaster and partial recovery is one of the greatest engineering feats ever attempted.
Howard Hughes helped bankroll a CIA plan to recover the K-129; codenamed Project Azorian. The ship was called the Hughes Glomar Explorer and it managed to lower a giant mechanical gimbal recovery vehicle (affectionately known as Clementine) 16,500 feet and actually managed to embrace a large section of the K129 and raise it. On the way up a mechanical failure with "Clementine" allowed the section to break apart and only about a third of the section was salvaged. Six Soviet sailor's bodies were recovered and given full military burial at see by the American crew of the Glomar. Nuclear tipped torpedoes and some cryptographic machines were also recovered. A model of the wreck based on Project Azorian is attached.

https://deepseamining.ac/article/11#gsc.tab=0

Well, I am a disaster. The only difference between me and the the Titanic is that the Titanic had a band.

I remember the K-129 sinking and operation to eventually locate it. It was on the BBC news a number of times in the 60's. I think the USA eventually helped as they had the deep diving gear that the Russians didn't have.

HI SimpleSailor
I am the same as yoi I know nothing about submarines, so in the end I just took one lucky stab at an answer.
My guess was correct, I could NOT have been luckier.
I am now slowly climbing up the ranking table, I cannot believe it.
I am now Not the lowest on the ranking table showing page. WHOOPEEE !!!😂😂
now I'm speeding🚤🚤along 😊 happily.
That's until tomorrows question.
And the Ranking % drops for No reason every here and there. 🤔🤔.

On these topics (secret military tests and trials) I don't think there are very reliable open sources, especially on the former Soviet Union. I don't think AI (which is wrong on simple and known topics) can be taken seriously.

One positive thing: I discovered that I have never seen the movie K-19, even though it is quite old. I have to recover it and watch it.

Just checking a few calculations. There are 4 scores of 73% and each one is in error.
One should be 95% and the rest descending.
The questions have become obscure, the answers frequently incorrect and the scoring in error.

I rest my case!

Roy

Seems I already answered again, must have been my ghost. I wonder if I got it right?

Well once again the Ai is making it's own history up. After some research and logical deduction I chose what appears to be the wrong answer. My research came up with the K-140 as being the first to fire a submerged salvo.
Quote from records "The first Soviet submarine to try a ballistic missile salvo launch was the Project 667A or Yankee class SSBN K-140. In late 1969, the commander of K-140, Captain 2nd rank Yuri Beketov, was given the task to prepare his crew for the launch of eight R-27 Zyb (SS-N-6 Serb) SLBMs out of the total of 16 carried."

I give up. You go down the ranking for not answering questions and you go down for answering questions that don't actually have the right answers. It would be interesting o know what Ai programme is used to set the questions.

Thats it I really do not care anymore so goodbye to this thread.
Roy

Picked a wrong answer today. Had to guess. Do not know that much about subs🤔😶

O/k waited till 8:12 P/M to answer the Day Question so it must be midnight some were in England so you need not remind me to answer the question & I hope I'll remember to answer Question tomorrow a little after 8:00 P/M Because I think it will be 2025-03-19 some were.😜

Right on Ron👍
Holland 1 is now preserved at the RN Sub Museum in Gosport UK.
But AI screwed up the date yet again🙄
Holland 1 was only launched on 2nd October 1901 and dived for the first time, in a protected basin, on 20 March 1902. Proper sea trials in April 1902.
Cheers, Doug😎

Got this one correct today. It was easy for me as I researched Hollands subs. Live in Nj and close to Paterson NJ as there are two of his subs in a museum🤔👍

Another pile of AI drivel. I went for Shackelton's ship but got it wrong. Aura was lost doe to suspected enemy action in 1917. Declared a total loss by Lloyds in 1918. (Wiki)

Another answer wrong when I checked ai it says I was right.
Philuk👍

I went to answer and was told that I had already answered todays question. This has happened several times in the past.
And it was also the wrong answer.
But then I would also have gone for Endurance and that's what had been answered.
IS AI intervening here on my behalf, I am watching the Australian Grand Prix on SKY and decided to look at todays question at the same time.
I'M annoyed to see someone has put in my incorrect answer that I WOULD have put before me.🤔🤔
HOW does this happen. 👎👎
This is happening too many times, how can my account be opened and this happen ????😠😠😠😠

On no. Got this one wrong. Thought it was the Endurance🙁

I understand you Roy, after several consecutive correct answers (the last one I skipped on purpose, even knowing the answer, was the one on the phone) my percentage has been fixed at 73% for at least two days.
No big deal, but I'm sorry for the lack of national increase.
You should do an exorcism and chase away the elf that is rowing against you.

Yes sir!
The good old B11, first in the Dardanelles. Very famous world renowned ship. Internationally well known loved and remembered, hero of the First World War.
Next question

A lucky guess for me this time!
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Apparently my other self had a go and got it wrong!
Roy

Lucky guess on this one, as it helped me on the standings. Had a lot of wrongs answers but doing better😊👍

As mentioned before:It was B11, but in December 1914 not March 1915. B11 torpedoed the Ottoman battleship Mesûdiye. Again AI has got his calendar in a twist.
Wrong in the question, correct in the answers.
I despair🙄🤔

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Canada 62% I guess all the Canadian participant's are thinking more about Tariffs and buying Canadian or are to busy thinking what little Donny's going to do today to the rest of the world I will stop posting political thinks SORRY.

I wish that his AI stuff had been around when I went through school. I got the answer wrong and my correct score went UP! 😆😆😆

Hi Commodore never a day goes pass...... The Australian submarine service is of everyday conversation in our house.
Roy

What an easy question, everyone knows this and thinks about it everyday. UGH!
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Well after some research and more deciphering of what the Ai was actually trying to ask I got it right. so my score has gone up. On the question of scoring I had not realised that if you didn't answer a question you were classed as getting it wrong and 3% was deducted. The particular question was the one where the Ai got it completely wrong so I didn't answer. Ho ho, life goes on 😊

Another 'None of the above question.'🙄
It wasn't E11 but B11, and on 14th December 1914 not March 1915.
B11 torpedoed the Ottoman battleship Mesûdiye.
Again AI has got his calendar in a twist. But still fooled me into going for E11☹️RATS😠
HMAS AE2 first entered the strait on 24th April 1915.
E11 on 18th May.
B and C we can discount😉

Another shout out for History channel😀
Ciao, Doug😎

Oops got this wrong, hopefully will do better With the next one🤔

Hi all testing your memories!!!!

Recently someone enquired after a set of plans for the PBM tug boat kit Alfred. Maybe not on this site etc, possibly Model Boats magazine. As new custodian of the club inherited plans I have found a good quality set.

If this trips anyones memory please let me know.

I have lots of plans many from magazines some with articles, any reqests?

Regards
Roy

Hi Roy, I also believe that the AI ​​has sunk into the Arctic Ocean.
It should follow the rules that Doug said, but the frequent exceptions that you, me and many others have found make me doubt it.
It still has a lot to improve, but I am confident in the very near future.

I am on a roll as well I have been allowed up to 50% although I do not remember getting wrong answers more than once or so in the last fortnight. But having got today right I have less right answers than yesterday.

I wonder if AI knows the difference between positive and negative numbers?
Roy

Ham or cheese Ron?😋😋
Don't forget the pickles😁

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I must be on a roll, another good guess. Just lucky😊🤪

Hey Boatshed, you're on the Board. #20 57%. Yaaaaay😀
Welcome aboard👍Hang in there Shipmate.

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A BIG HOORAH for NatGeo and History channel😀
BTW It was 13th June not March🙄
What the heck calendar is our Awesomely Incompetent using??!!

Cheers All, Doug😎
Footnote. I know there was a Norwegian exploration ship called Fram.
But to me FRAM will forever mean ' Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization' having happily worked on several such programs. 😉
More Trivia! USS Jeanette actually started life as a Royal Navy gunboat, HMS Pandora.
DON'T OPEN THAT HATCH!!!!! OH S***ugar😮

That's way better It's 9.56 A.M here in Canada & the question for 2025-03-12 is now posted & I can now answer it because I do most of my computer stuff in the morning Thanks P/S I've deleted all my e-mails that read answer todays question until tomorrow morning.

Hi Doug, Mums are the best!
Roy

I had just joined the Fire Service and was sent to work on the beaches for two weeks before I did my basic training we travelled down on the day the RAF bombed it !😁

I remember the RAF bombing the wreck to try and break it up and burn off the remaining oil. The RAF used Hawker Hunters and the Fleet Air Arm used Buccaneers...

Finally a correct answer, lucky quess. At least I moved up to Warrant Officer😊🇺🇸

re Alessanndro post I do not use a mobile phone, yes I am the last of the dinosaurs!
Roy

18th March🙄
(My Mum's birthday BTW. RIP Mum. She would have made 100 next week and received a Telegram/card from the Queen/King which she so dearly wanted. She missed it by three years.)

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