The Friday Brain-teaser from Xrefer - this week: Famous Ships. Answers here
1. Which British passenger liner sank on her maiden voyage on April 14-15, 1912?
2. Name the British survey ship that carried Charles Darwin as ship's naturalist when it explored South America and the Pacific Islands for five years.
3. Name the leaky old craft which was the title of a 1935 novel by C. S. Forester, filmed in 1951 with Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnutt.
4. Name the yacht in which Francis Chichester made the first solo sailing voyage around the world.
5. Which Tudor warship (Henry VIII's flagship) sank in 1545 in Portsmouth Harbour (its hull was raised in 1982)?
6. Name the ship in which Jason sailed in search of the Golden Fleece.
7. Which ghost ship, haunting the seas around the Cape of Good Hope, inspired an 1843 opera by Wagner?
8. In R. L. Stevenson's story "Treasure Island", what was the name of the ship in which Jim Hawkins set sail with Squire Trelawney?
9. Which famous clipper ship, built at Dumbarton in 1869, is preserved as a museum at Greenwich in London?
10. Tinkerbelle crossed which ocean in 1965, the smallest vessel to make the passage up to that time?
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