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1. The Japanese signed their surrender in World War II aboard this battleship. Which?
2. Which of these was the flagship of Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar?
3. This submarine is generally credited with being the first sub to sink a ship in battle, when it sank USS Housatonic on February 17, 1864.
4. This battlecruiser was sunk by the Bismarck and Prinz Eugen on May 24, 1941.
5. Captain Ahab used this ship to chase Moby Dick.
6. On 4 December 1872, the British brigantine Dei Gratia found this ship between the Azores and Portugal, the sails slightly damaged, several feet of water in the hold, and completely abandoned.
7. This warship, nicknamed Old Ironsides, is the oldest commissioned warship in the US Navy.
8. Fletcher Christian led a mutiny aboard this ship against Captain William Bligh and 18 of his followers.
9. This U.S. aircraft carrier was mortally damaged by the Japanese at the battle of Midway on June 4, 1942 and sank two days later.
10. This heavy cruiser delivered the atomic bomb to Tinian and was sunk by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945. '1200 men went in the water, 366 came out, the sharks took the rest.' - to quote a famous movie.
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