NAVEDTRA 14325, Ch. 5, BMR

Question 1

What date did the Second Continental Congress create the United States Navy by authorizing the
purchase of two vessels?

Answer 1

October 13, 1775

Question 2

Ships-of-the-line, Frigates, along with what else were the three major classes of vessels during the
Revolutionary war and into the 19th century?

Answer 2

Sloops-of-War

Question 3

Which ships were the largest of all the sailing warships carrying 64 to over 100 guns of various sizes during the revolutionary war and into the 19th century?

Answer 3

Ships-of-the-line

Question 4

Which type of vessel was characterized as a small, fast, flexible, flush-deck ship that carried smooth-
bore cannons?

Answer 4

Schooner

Question 5

What was the name of the first warfare submarine?

Answer 5

Turtle

Question 6

What was the first U.S. Navy flagship that is said to be the first U.S. naval vessel where the “Flag of
Freedom” was hoisted by John Paul Jones?

Answer 6

USS Alfred

Question 7

What year was the first Continental Navy squadron put to sea by Esek Hopkins?

Answer 7

1776

Question 8

Who is the father of our highest naval traditions?

Answer 8

John Paul Jones

Question 9

What became one of the first foreign powers to recognize the struggling government of the American Colonies?

Answer 9

France

Question 10

At the end of the Revolutionary War, a new federal government was established. In 1783, the Navy was down to five ships. The Navy was disbanded, and the last frigate, the USS Alliance, was sold in what year?

Answer 10

1785

Question 11

What year was the Department of the Navy established by John Adams?

Answer 11

1798

Question 12

What war was the origin of the famous expression “Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute”?

Answer 12

Quasi War

Question 13

How many guns were generally carried by Frigates during the revolutionary war and into the 19th century?

Answer 13

28 to 44

Question 14

What nickname was earned by the USS Constitution when Captain Isaac Hull defeated the British frigate Guerriere with it on August 19, 1812?

Answer 14

Old Ironsides

Question 15

Who defeated a British squadron on Lake Erie on September 10, 1813, and wrote his dispatch “We
have met the enemy and they are ours.”?

Answer 15

Captain Oliver Hazard Perry

Question 16

Who was the first to successfully power a commercial steamboat with steam?

Answer 16

Robert Fulton

Question 17

What was the first Navy warship to use steam?

Answer 17

USS Demologos

Question 18

What year did the Navy launch the USS Pennsylvania which was the largest of ship-of-the-line vessel?

Answer 18

1837

Question 19

What year did the Navy launch the USS Missouri and the USS Mississippi which were our first ocean-
going, steam-driven capital ships?

Answer 19

1841

Question 20

What year did the Navy launch the USS Michigan which was the first iron-hulled warship?

Answer 20

1843

Question 21

Who is referred to as the “Father of the Steam Navy”?

Answer 21

Commander Matthew Calbraith Perry

Question 22

What year was the USS Princeton which was the Navy’s first successful steamship launched?

Answer 22

1843

Question 23

What year was USS New Ironsides, that had armor allowing it to survive 50 hits in one battle, launched
by the Union?

Answer 23

1862

Question 24

Which war saw the most changes and advances made in ship design than during any period since the
Navy originated in 1775?

Answer 24

Civil War

Question 25

Which submarine was a jinx to the Confederate Navy?

Answer 25

CSS Hunley

Question 26

What gave the famous order “Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!” on August 5th, 1864?

Answer 26

David Farragut

Question 27

Who defined sea power, showed the importance of understanding naval needs, and advocated a large,powerful Navy capable of assembling an overwhelming force to defeat the enemy’s Navy?

Answer 27

Alfred T. Mahan

Question 28

How many Navy ships were in active service a year and a half after the Civil War?

Answer 28

56

Question 29

Which vessel has been labeled as the first modern cruiser in the U.S. Fleet?

Answer 29

USS Newark

Question 30

What year did the USS Cushing which was one of the Navy’s first torpedo boats join the fleet?

Answer 30

1890

Question 31

What year did the periscope start being replaced as the submarine’s basic visual aid?

Answer 31

1958

Question 32

What was the name of the first operational submarine in the Navy?

Answer 32

USS Holland

Question 33

The USS Skipjack (SS 24) along with what else were the first vessels to have diesel engines installed?

Answer 33

USS Sturgeon (SS 25)

Question 34

What year did construction begin on the first United States Navy Destroyer?

Answer 34

1899

Question 35

How many destroyers were ordered during World War I?

Answer 35

273

Question 36

The USS Texas along with which other vessel were the first two commissioned battleships?

Answer 36

USS Maine

Question 37

Who was the U.S. Navy’s first officer in charge of aviation?

Answer 37

Captain Washington Irving Chambers

Question 38

Who successfully took off from and landed a biplane on a platform rigged aboard USS Pennsylvania
(ACR 4) demonstrating the practical use of naval aircraft?

Answer 38

Eugene Ely

Question 39

Who was the first Naval Aviator?

Answer 39

Lieutenant T. G. Ellyson

Question 40

What was the first battleship to use oil?

Answer 40

USS Nevada (BB 36)

Question 41

What year did the Great White Fleet depart Hampton Roads, Virginia for a round-the-world cruise to display the flag?

Answer 41

1907

Question 42

What was the main German U-boats defense?

Answer 42

Destroyers

Question 43

The USS Nicholson along with what other destroyer were the first U.S. ships to sink an enemy
submarine on November 17, 1917?

Answer 43

USS Fanning

Question 44

What year was the recommendation given by a Navy surgeon to employ women in hospitals in order to care for the Navy’s sick and wounded?

Answer 44

1811

Question 45

What year were the Nurse Corps officially established?

Answer 45

1908

Question 46

Who piloted the NC-4 which became the first airplane to fly across the Atlantic?

Answer 46

LCDR Albert C. Read

Question 47

What year did the USS Ranger join the fleet?

Answer 47

1934

Question 48

What year did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?

Answer 48

1941

Question 49

Which battle was fought entirely with aircraft launched from carriers?

Answer 49

Coral Sea

Question 50

Which battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?

Answer 50

Midway

Question 51

What year was the invasion of Normandy?

Answer 51

1944

Question 52

Which war did radar and sonar came into full use?

Answer 52

World War II

Question 53

What year did Congress authorize the Women’s Reserve establishment with an estimated goal of
10,000 enlisted women and 1,000 officers?

Answer 53

1942

Question 54

What was the first Reserve classification for female officers?

Answer 54

W-V(S)

Question 55

What year did a squadron of FH-1 Phantoms qualify for carrier operations aboard the USS Saipan
(CVL-48)?

Answer 55

1948

Question 56

What year did the Korean Conflict end?

Answer 56

1953

Question 57

What was the first nuclear submarine put to sea on January 17, 1955?

Answer 57

USS Nautilus

Question 58

Who made America’s first suborbital flight on May 5, 1961?

Answer 58

Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr.

Question 59

What year did America enter the Vietnam conflict?

Answer 59

1965

Question 60

What was the first nuclear-powered carrier in the world?

Answer 60

USS Enterprise (CVN 65)

Question 61

Former Navy pilot Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon on what date?

Answer 61

July 20, 1969

Question 62

What was the Navy’s first deep diving vehicle?

Answer 62

USS Alvin

Question 63

What was the first Trident submarine which was a nuclear powered fleet ballistic missile submarine?

Answer 63

USS Ohio (SSBN-726)