Statistics for Famous Ships

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Fluyt, carried pilgrims to Massachusetts in 1620	Mayflower	95%
Carried naturalist Charles Darwin on a voyage of scientific discovery in 1831	HMS Beagle	70%
Large passenger liner sunk in the North Atlantic by U-Boat in 1915	RMS Lusitania	69%
The crew of this ship mutinied in 1789 before sailing to Pitcairn Island	HMS Bounty	67%
Galleon of Sir Francis Drake, completed a circumnavigation in 1580	Golden Hind	54%
Balsa wood raft, sailed across the Pacific in 1947 by Thor Heyerdahl	Kon Tiki	49%
Speedy tea clipper built in 1869, now a museum in Greenwich, London	Cutty Sark	42%
Flagship of Admiral Nelson, launched in 1765, oldest still-commissioned warship in the world	HMS Victory	42%
Barque used on the first of Captain Cook's voyages of discovery, 1768-1771	HMS Endeavour	41%
US Battleship, sank in Havana harbour in 1898, precipitating the Spanish-American War	USS Maine	38%
US brigantine, mysteriously found floating abandoned off the Azores in 1872	Mary Celeste	33%
War carrack of King Henry VIII, sank during the Battle of the Solent, 1545	Mary Rose	28%
First Union ironclad warship, nicknamed the "Yankee Cheesebox," delivered in 1862	USS Monitor	25%
Carried Captain Scott and Ernest Shackleton on a mission to the Antarctic 1901-1904	RRS Discovery	16%
First iron steamer to cross the Atlantic in 1845. Designed by Brunel, now a museum in Bristol (UK)	SS Great Britain	15%
Sailed with Franklin (above.) Both ships lost - found in 2016 near King William Island, Nunavut	HMS Terror	13%
French frigate, wrecked off Africa in 1816, survivors cast adrift on a raft, painted by Gericault	Meduse	13%
Shackleton's ship for his 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition	Endurance	12%
Departed England in 1845 under Sir John Franklin in search of the North West Passage	HMS Erebus	10%
Original name of Drake's ship (above) until re-named mid-voyage in 1578	Pelican	8%
Bronze-Age craft, constructed circa 1550 BC, named for place found in the English Channel	Dover Boat	6%
Name of the state barge of the Doges of Venice from 1311-1798	Bucentaur	3%
Solar barge, built around 2500 BC for the funeral of an Egyptian Pharaoh	Khufu Ship	2%
Viking Longship, built circa 320 AD, found in a Danish bog	Nydam Ship	2%