Famous Shipwrecks Trivia Questions
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This British ocean liner was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1915 off the coast of Ireland, helping draw the United States into World War I.
- RMS Titanic
- RMS Lusitania
- HMS Hood
- SS Andrea Doria
This Japanese battleship, the largest ever built, was sunk by American aircraft in April 1945 during a suicide mission to Okinawa.
- Bismarck
- HMS Prince of Wales
- Yamato
- Musashi
This German battleship was hunted across the Atlantic and sunk in May 1941 after destroying HMS Hood, the pride of the British Navy.
- Bismarck
- Tirpitz
- Scharnhorst
- Graf Spee
This American battleship was sunk during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, and remains a memorial in Hawaii with over 1,100 crew entombed aboard.
- USS Missouri
- USS Arizona
- USS Oklahoma
- USS Nevada
This Spanish galleon, laden with treasure from the New World, sank in a 1622 hurricane off Florida and was discovered by Mel Fisher in 1985.
- San Jose
- Flor de la Mar
- Santa Maria
- Nuestra Senora de Atocha
This luxury Italian liner collided with another ship in fog off Nantucket in 1956 and sank, becoming one of the most famous peacetime maritime disasters.
- SS Andrea Doria
- SS Rex
- SS Conte di Savoia
- MS Achille Lauro
This Swedish warship sank in Stockholm harbor in 1628 on its maiden voyage after sailing less than a mile, and was salvaged nearly intact in 1961.
- Mary Rose
- Vasa
- Kronan
- Mars
This English flagship of King Henry VIII sank in 1545 during a battle with French forces and was raised in 1982, becoming a famous archaeological treasure.
- Mary Rose
- Golden Hinde
- HMS Victory
- Sovereign of the Seas
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