MilesGregarius
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Nope. No Soviets.
New Cumulative history Quiz VII
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are they considered a major power within the last 50 years?
This is really strange, knowing that I have no chance i tried googling it, but that didn't help.
There are only two reasons I can think of for sinking a current major combat vessel:
a) scuttling a crippled ship
b) hostile forces seized it (i.e. a mutiny)
A block ship would almost certainly be an older and/or weaker vessel unless the situation was desperate, and outside of WWII I can't think of any time when that is likely.
Unless it is an poor navy with older ships, then maybe they wanted to dispose of it (i.e. they had an antiquated cruiser that was still more powerful then the rest of the fleet, but not worth running).
There are only two reasons I can think of for sinking a current major combat vessel:
a) scuttling a crippled ship
b) hostile forces seized it (i.e. a mutiny)
A block ship would almost certainly be an older and/or weaker vessel unless the situation was desperate, and outside of WWII I can't think of any time when that is likely.
Unless it is an poor navy with older ships, then maybe they wanted to dispose of it (i.e. they had an antiquated cruiser that was still more powerful then the rest of the fleet, but not worth running).
civ editor11
Ruler
The Danes of WWII scuttled their entire navy to keep it away from the naxis
MilesGregarius
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@Civ King - No, not a major power.
@say1988 - Yep, this question is Google-proof.
Your reasoning is generally sound, but it doesn't cover quite all contingencies. Scuttling, for whatever reason, was definitely not the motive behind the sinking.
@ civ editor11 - Not the Danes, either.
@say1988 - Yep, this question is Google-proof.
Your reasoning is generally sound, but it doesn't cover quite all contingencies. Scuttling, for whatever reason, was definitely not the motive behind the sinking.
@ civ editor11 - Not the Danes, either.
Did they think it was hostile?
sydhe
King of Kongs
It could also be a nation that lost its seacoast (hence my guess of Austria), which signed a naval limitations treaty or didn't want a hostile nation capturing it.
nonconformist
Miserable
Was it during the Suez Crisis?
MilesGregarius
Half-baked Renegade
@Flying Pig - It was definitely an overtly hostile act, no mistaken identity.
@sydhe - That would still more or less be an act of scuttling.
@nonconformist - No, nothing to do with Suez.
@sydhe - That would still more or less be an act of scuttling.
@nonconformist - No, nothing to do with Suez.
Hmm... did the ship's name begin with "Ko"?
Because that's what I found Googling
- but that definitely was a case of mistaken identity? 
MilesGregarius
Half-baked Renegade
@Arakhor - No, not Cuba, though you are kind of on the right track thinking revolution.
@Yeekim - No mistaken identity. The sinking was a very deliberate act.
@Yeekim - No mistaken identity. The sinking was a very deliberate act.
Perhaps Spain during the civil war? The air forces and navy were on different sides perhaps?
NeoCon, go ask something in the general knowledge quiz in the forum games
NeoCon, go ask something in the general knowledge quiz in the forum games
MilesGregarius
Half-baked Renegade
No, not Spain, but this county's air force and navy were definitely not seeing eye-to-eye during this incident.
MilesGregarius
Half-baked Renegade
72 hour mark is almost up.
Anyone else care to give it a shot?
Anyone else care to give it a shot?
It's not usually enforced, at least if people keep guessing. Try to give hint instead.
MilesGregarius
Half-baked Renegade
I guess I could keep letting this roll on, but since I seem to have everybody stumped, here's the answer:
During the 1951 Manhattan Coup, Officers of the Royal Thai Navy seized Prime Minister Plaek Pibulsonggram (Pibun, for short) and held him hostage aboard their flagship, HTMS Si Ayutthaya. The Royal Thai Army and Royal Thai Police (actually as formidable as the Army, if not more so), totally disregarding their erstwhile PM's safety, proceeded to call upon the Royal Thai Air Force to bomb the Si Ayutthaya, which the Air Force duly did. Pibun survived; the ship didn't.
I asked this same question on the totalwar.org forums and nobody got it there either.
During the 1951 Manhattan Coup, Officers of the Royal Thai Navy seized Prime Minister Plaek Pibulsonggram (Pibun, for short) and held him hostage aboard their flagship, HTMS Si Ayutthaya. The Royal Thai Army and Royal Thai Police (actually as formidable as the Army, if not more so), totally disregarding their erstwhile PM's safety, proceeded to call upon the Royal Thai Air Force to bomb the Si Ayutthaya, which the Air Force duly did. Pibun survived; the ship didn't.
I asked this same question on the totalwar.org forums and nobody got it there either.
MilesGregarius
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New question. This one should be a lot easier:
Who was the first explorer to survey enough of Antarctica to prove it a continent instead of merely a collection of islands?
Who was the first explorer to survey enough of Antarctica to prove it a continent instead of merely a collection of islands?
was thi a US navy guy by the name of Wilkes?
MilesGregarius
Half-baked Renegade
Yeah, that would be the man. Charles Wilkes, commander of the United States Exploring Expedition.
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