Tomorrow’s question
What Royal Navy 🛳️ ship sank in Sicily on March 12th?
Titanic?

Hi roy I had same problem a while back but been OK since .
Philuk👍

Hi Roy, just a hypothesis: Is it possible that he rubs the screen of the phone inadvertently, maybe when it is in his pocket?
However, I think that the system may still have many problems.

3rd. time in a row that I have been told I have already answered it!
Roy

It's March 11 2025 & it's 8:57 A.M. in Hamilton Ontario Canada It's March 11 2025 & it's 12:54 P.M. in England . So I answer the question at around 7:15 P.M. March 11 2025 & that's why Canadians aren't answering the question at the proper time for all the Model Boat Website viewers . So what time is best to go on my P.C. and answer the question so my score will be made properly Thanks & have a great lunch .

Please stop this I feel like I'm being BULLIED ever day I will answer the Question if I feel like it .I do get tired of deleting E-Mails Thanks have a good day.

Right on SimpleSailor👍
Once again AI only got it partially right.
Right ship, wrong date, wrong islands.🙄

😎

https://www.priaulxlibrary.co.uk/articles/article/december-23-1803-loss-grappler-and-sufferings-its-captain-and-crew

Well I got so fed up that I cheated it did me no good as could not find a thing so in the end I guessed, once again 1864 really is that relevant to model boat building at this rate I might just give up . Bit of a joke
Philuk👍

Well I got that one right. Just by deduction as the answer Ai gives is not an exact one. According to the Royal Navy Loss List. Gunboat no 28 (HMS Grappler) was grounded at Lles de Chose France, (I actually think it was Iles Chausey, as there was a French fort there) captured and burnt by the French. Registered lost 30/12/1803

For those interested in Royal Navy history this link might be useful, particularly if the Ai could read it .

https://www.thisismast.org/assets/downloads/rn-loss-list-2023-02-27.pdf

I think this is the end for me!

One search has Grappler as non-existent!

Roy

My stab in the dark missed by a mile. I refuse to cheat by searching the internet for the correct answer - therefore most of my answers are guesswork.

I picked the wrong answer and got it right!

11th March 2025.
Answer: None of the above!
Which 'wrong / AI correct' answer you choose will be pure Pot Luck!🙄
Bon chance mes amis🤞
Doug😎

Chose a wrong answer, maybe better tomorrow🤔👍

Hi Doug,
That was as clear as MUD, as I have already said I was always the thick one at school and in the corner with the dunces hat on😂.
The bit that was clear is that come midnight my score will drop AGAIN.
But anyway I can live with that I will just keep trying to answer the questions correctly and try getting higher % than I am.
Or it's
Down down deeper and down.
Down down deeper and down

Hi Doug, my doubt was not related to the calculation of personal percentages (which is quite easy and that you explained well) but on those for nations.
Could you explain the nation mechanism equally well?

In the end, honestly, I am not very interested in the personal score and I refuse to take certain questions into consideration for various reasons (like the one about the phone, in that case out of respect for the memory of Antonio Meucci) even if I know that this means a wrong question and a drop in percentage.

Roy.
Re "For the members mentioned above, are the scores / numbers played updated? Mine have been like that since the start. Perhaps only part of the system is working, so much for automation!"

Roy, the short answer is YES!
For everyone; at midnight GMT/ZULU.
Then, for individual members, WHEN they answer the new question (right or wrong)😉
See also my post #3494 below.

Why is it so difficult for folks to get their heads round this simple arithmetic, not even math!
For me math began with calculus. Differentiation was OK, I struggled with integration though🤔
Applied mathematics and physics were my strong points🤗 Pure maths my weak point. Couldn't see the use for it back then😔
Probably why I became an engineer (specialism radio communications) and not an astrophysicist or astronaut😁
"Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars,
Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars. In other words ..."
Wäre so schön gewesen. Vielleicht! 😁
Cheers, Doug😎

Hi Boatshed.
Re "HOW THE HELL is this scoring working.
I bet my score will go down again tonight for NO reason.🙈🙉🙊🤕. "
Your post # 3473.
I'll try once again to clarify this. It's not astrophysics and you don't need to be an Einstein or Heisenberg to get your head round it😉
As mentioned in my post # 3493 below.
Since Stephen's last rehash of QotD the leader board 30 day scores are calculated as
(answers correct/30days)%. NO LONGER (ANSWERS CORRECT/QUESTIONS PLAYED)%.
Therefore a question not answered now counts as a wrong answer.☹️

"I bet my score will go down again tonight for NO reason."
Boatshed, it sure will! But you are NOT alone; EVERYONE'S SCORE WILL GO DOWN AT MIDNIGHT GMT (ZULU TIME for the mariners & soldiers amongst us) for the good reason I just explained.
At that time a new question appears and until you answer it correctly it counts as a wrong answer for you and your score goes down by ~3%. The 3% is a result of the rounding that Stephen uses.
Example for you BS-
#20 on the Leader board is currently Alessandro with 63%. 19 correct. 21 played. --> (19/30)% =63.333r%. Rounded -->63%. QED.
You are not on the board so you must have less than 63%.☹️
Let's be generous and say you have 60%. So you must have answered 18 questions correctly over the last 30 days. 18/30=60%. No rounding needed!😁
At midnight GMT the question changes and your answer from 31 days ago drops out of the calculation so you then have (17answers/30days)% --> 56.666%. Rounded -->57%.
That's where the nightly 3% drop comes from.

IF you then answer the new question correctly, and a correct answer from 31 days ago drops out of the calc, you will again have 18/30 --> 60% again😀
If you get it wrong you will remain at 17/30 -->57%.
If your answer 31 days ago, which has now dropped out of the calc, was wrong and your new answer is right then you should have 19/30 --> 63% when rounded.

We are ALL going round on this carousel and the only way our scores can climb is if we always get the new question right and our past wrong answers drop out of the calc because they are no longer within the 30 day window. This can take a while, depending on when they occurred within the 30 days😉

All clear? Tutto chiaro? Alles klar Herr Commissar?
Doug😎
PS, due to the considerations outlined above I have been bouncing round a loop of 83, 80,77,80,83% for days. The trick is to guess what the AI means is correct for an obviously nonsense 'None of the above question'. 😉 I.e. outwitting the AI is the key. Bon chance mes amis🤞

Well this explains why I never found an answer to that one! Kept going round and round with the overall question, then the history of each submarine in the question and thought I was missing something. I was - an answer to the bogus question.

Just picked the name I have never heard of
Philuk👍

For the members mentioned above, are the scores / numbers played updated? Mine have been like that since the start. Perhaps only part of the system is working, so much for automation!

I am not going into anything A.I. driven unless it is on rails. Although I fly long distance there are crew watching the dials so feel that A.I. can't get a crafty one in.
Saying someone is wrong is like a red rag to a bull, then saying black is white into the bargain with no means of redress, frustrating .

It is like when you vote in a general election it is always the Government that gets in!

I keep thinking of the children's programme Trumpton when a certain face appears on TV. I think I know where his ideas come from now!

Roy

Pure luck on my part today. Took a stab in the dark and got it right through the heart!

It’s a good job that three of today’s answers can be eliminated fairly safely leaving only one. Never heard of that one.

QotD 10th March 2025.
Right ship👍, wrong date👎, wrong place👎🙄
30th May 1906, Lundy island.
Which to the best of my knowledge is still in the Bristol Channel north of Devon and not the Scilly Isles.

Doug😎

Bravo DG👍
Electra (H27) was indeed an E class destroyer, sunk 27th Feb 1942 in the Battle of Java Sea. Not by scuttling but by gunfire from IJN ships, one cruiser and two destroyers, while trying to protect HMS Exeter. She gave as good as she got and went down fighting with her Ensign flying.
Cheers, Doug😎

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Electra_(H27)#Battle_of_the_Java_Sea_and_loss

Finally got one correct, this was just a lucky quess😊👍

This is crazy. No British submarines were scuttled near Java as far as I can ascertain. I’m stopping doing this game.

Quite right ekoral and Nick👍
The correct answer today is 'None of the Above'.
There never was a T class sub named Talbot.
The only RN ship scuttled during the Second Battle of the Java sea was an E class destroyer HMS Encounter. She was badly damaged while trying to protect HMS Exeter (of River Plate fame) which had been immobilised by a hit in the boiler rooms. See report below.
Oh, and it was on 1st March not the 9th.🙄

Nick,
I can vouch for your comment.
During my first of several visits to Malta I could see Manoel Island from my hotel room window.
It's in a natural harbour just north of the Grand Harbour. It has also featured in various documentaries, including Lost Places.

Our AI has gone senile and should be sent to a Care Home.
Cheers All, Doug😎


HMS Encounter (H10) from uncle Wiki.
"Second Battle of the Java Sea
Main article: Second Battle of the Java Sea

The following day, after making temporary repairs and refuelling, Exeter, Encounter and the American destroyer Pope were ordered to sail to Colombo, via the Sunda Strait. They departed on the evening of 28 February, but were intercepted by the Japanese heavy cruisers Nachi, Haguro, Myōkō and Ashigara and the destroyers Akebono, Inazuma, Yamakaze and Kawakaze on the morning of 1 March.[33] About 08:00, the British ships spotted two of the Japanese cruisers, one of which launched its spotting floatplanes. Two others were seen closing in, and both launched their aircraft before opening fire at about 09:30.[34] The Allied ships laid smoke and turned away to the east with the Japanese to their north and south.[35] Exeter was able to reach a speed of 26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph)[36] before the first hit on her again detonated in a boiler room and knocked out all power around 11:20. Encounter turned back to lay a smoke screen to protect the immobilised cruiser, and aid survivors, but she was soon immobilised herself by shell hits and splinters and set on fire.[37] Lieutenant Commander Eric Morgan, the destroyer's captain, ordered the ship scuttled to prevent her capture by the Japanese. She capsized and sank about 12:10.[38] Pope initially escaped this melee, only to be sunk about two hours later as well.[39]

Eight of the ship's company were killed and the remaining 149 became prisoners of war[40] when they were rescued the following day, along with the remaining survivors from Exeter that were still in the water, by the Japanese destroyer Ikazuchi. The Encounter survivors had been adrift for some 20 hours, in rafts and lifejackets or clinging to floats, many coated in oil and unable to see. Among the rescued was Lieutenant (later Sir) Sam Falle, an officer aboard Encounter, who would go on to become a British diplomat.[41] This humanitarian decision by Lieutenant Commander Shunsaku Kudō placed Ikazuchi at risk of submarine attack, and interfered with her fighting ability due to the sheer numbers of rescued sailors. The action was later the subject of a book[42] and a TV special.[43][44] 38 of the ship's crew subsequently died in captivity.

The wreck was originally discovered on 21 February 2007, lying at a depth of 60–61 metres (197–200 ft).[45] During an expedition to survey the site in 2016, it was found to have been almost completely destroyed by illegal salvage operations.[46][47] "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Encounter_(H10)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Exeter_(68)#Second_Battle_of_the_Java_Sea

I thought it was HMS Exeter but that wasn't an option!

There is no Royal Submarine HMS Talbot that is scuttled.

Hii SS A.i. thinks it was the Med' naval base!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think it is time to scuttle the A.I. pull the plug, nice idea but really so much controversy over the daft answers.

It has put me off any Medical diagnosis offered by computer. I did have a Q & A with a medical A.I. a few years ago. I had and still have a partially numb finger, pinky on left hand. Gets left out of most things anyway.

Are you in pain?
No!
How much pain on a scale 1-10?
0.

Where does it hurt?

I gave up!
I wanted some exercises and found them separately on a Physical Therapy site.

Needless to say the exercises were well meaning but ineffective, perhaps they found them on another A.I. site.
Roy

HMS Talbot was a stone frigate. The RN submarine base in the Med.

Well, I am not going to answer this, as after some research I cannot find the answer. Be pleased to know what the Ai thinks it was. Maybe someone could enlighten me 😀

Another lucky guess! (even if the AI answer was wrong, LOL)

Wrong! HMS Talbot was the RN submarine base on Malta...

A.I. is at it again, thinks I have been before but does not reveal posts!
Roy

Tough question got it wrong again, maybe better on Sunday 👍

I came on yesterday and my score had gone had gone down 3%.
I got the question correct and it went up 3%.
I came on today and yes my score had gone down 3% again.
I have got todays question correct again and it's gone up 3% again.
HOW THE HELL is this scoring working.
I bet my score will go down again tonight for NO reason.🙈🙉🙊🤕.

Well, let's see. The date is wrong and the Scorpion went down off the Azores, which are NOT in the Pacific.
Beyond that, great question.....😮😮

If I keep on like this I am going to be in negative scoring 😁
Philuk👍

Doug,

I understand you response now. I would have been 9. I remember some pictures in the newspaper, I thought I would have been older when she sank

PS to my post # 3463 -
The only anomaly that I see in the scoring is that country scores seem to be -
Answers correct/answers given (played) %
whereas member 30 day scores are-
Answers correct/30 %.
Why? Ask Stephen😉
Ciao, Doug😎

Oh oh another bad quess today, now I am #20. I better do better on Saturday👍

Hi Ross,
No. I did not say that Thresher sank in 1968.
She sank in 1963. I vaguely remember it, I was 11 & 3/4 then 😁
"USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. She was the U.S. Navy's second submarine to be named after the thresher shark.

On 10 April 1963, Thresher sank during deep-diving tests about 350 km (220 mi) east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, killing all 129 crew and shipyard personnel aboard. Her loss was a watershed for the U.S. Navy, leading to the implementation of a rigorous submarine safety program known as SUBSAFE. "

There was an excellent docu about her on NatGeo channel a few years ago.

Cheers, Doug😎
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thresher_(SSN-593)

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=uss+thresher+wreck+photos

Thanks Doug

I was old enough to remember the Thresher loss, which as you say,
puts it in 1968

Quite so Nick👍
Another complete AI bust, absolute b******s😠
Various sources confirm ...
"USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear-powered submarine that served in the United States Navy, the sixth vessel and second submarine to carry that name.

Scorpion sank on 27 May 1968. She is one of two nuclear submarines that the U.S. Navy has lost, the other being USS Thresher.[4] She was one of the four submarine disappearances in 1968, the others being the Israeli submarine INS Dakar, the French submarine Minerve, and the Soviet submarine K-129.

The wreckage of the Scorpion remains in the North Atlantic Ocean with all its armaments and nuclear reactor. "

"Where is the wreckage of the USS Scorpion?
NH 97223-KN Wreck of USS Scorpion (SSN-589)
Description: Wreck of USS Scorpion (SSN-589) Atlantic Ocean (August 1986).... Depth 10,000 feet, 400 miles southwest of the Azores; A view of the detached sail of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589) laying on the ocean floor."

Date wrong, ocean wrong. No idea where our disastrous AI is looking for it's info but it sure as hell isn't where I have learned to look over the last few decades, including many official navy sites. Since the last 'enhancements' OotD has only got badly worse.

Apart from data corrections on future questions this is my last active ('playing') entry on this nonsense quiz. It is simply not worth the effort anymore.

@ Stephen: Court-martial Capt. AI, demote him to Unable seaman and discharge him dishonourably.
Yours, sadly disappointed, Doug☹️
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_%28SSN-589%29

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=uss+scorpion+ssn+589+wreck#vhid=gpppnLV-pJP76M&vssid=l

Well that's wrong, Scorpion was lost near The Azores...

DG,
Re: "surely someone out of the "Top members played in the past 30 days" should be @ or close to 100%?? "

No way Jose😉
Top members scores are calculated over the last 30 days.
So if our esteemed member answered 1 or 2 or? questions correctly his personal score would be 1/30 or 2/30 expressed as a percentage. I.e. 3.33r% or 6.66r%.
Way way way way below the 20th position on the leader board.
The only way he could have 100% on the leader board would be if he had answered all the last 30 questions correctly. I suspect he only answered one so far and got it right.
Maybe more, but not yet 30.
Cheers, Doug😎

That person that has 100 % should get a ticket to the game show "Jeopardy!

For one member to be correct 100% of the time (Czech Republic), surely someone out of the "Top members played in the past 30 days" should be @ or close to 100%??