Looking for Triva Questions about the Crown Princess
Hello all I am new to this board and need your help in finding questions (and answers) for a triva crown princess night we are having. If you can give me any suggestions about places to get info on thecrown would be grateful. Ian
Hello all I am new to this board and need your help in finding questions (and answers) for a triva crown princess night we are having. If you can give me any suggestions about places to get info on thecrown would be grateful. Ian
Here's a couple I found Hope it helps
There are sixteen pianos onboard!
You can tell which direction an elevator is going without looking at the light-up arrow- it makes one dinging sound if it is going down and two dinging noises if it is going up.
Also, the patterns on the hallway carpet are red on the port side and blue on the starboard.
Did you know that the Crown Princess has a live lobster tank?
It's in the Crown Grill, which is a specialty restaurant and has a surcharge, and you have your choice between live Maine Lobster or Brazilian lobster.
Thanks I will use that one too. If anyone else has any suggestions please give them to me. Does anyone know how many whistles are sounded for different situations (or where might I find this info?
Thanks I will use that one too. If anyone else has any suggestions please give them to me. Does anyone know how many whistles are sounded for different situations (or where might I find this info?
Oh good question!!!! I don't know but would like to also!!!!
Just like driving an automobile, ships also have traffic rules. Here is a sampling:
Ships keep to the right and pass to the right in shipping lanes with certain exceptions.
Ship whistles: In certain circumstances or crowded lanes, ships use their whistles (horns) as directional signals. If a ship is passing another vessel, it gives a single blast on its horn, which means it is turning to starboard. Two blasts signals a turn to port. The other ship acknowledges by repeating the same whistle or horn blast
Ship whistles are also sounded when in port signaling the various stages in the preparation to depart, such as warning signal that it is time for visitors to depart the vessel. Usually three blasts are given as the ship slides out of its berth. When the pilot of the vessel disembarks from the vessel at the entrance to the harbor, a short blast is given as well. Ship whistles are also sounded in emergency situations, such as the signal for passengers to go to their designated boat stations.
Navigational running lights are used at night: green for starboard; red for port; plus two white lights on the mast. The forward light is lower than the aft one.
Flags and pennants are displayed for identification. Cruise lines display their emblems on ship�s funnels. Each time a country is visited, its national flag is flown along with the ship�s flag of registry (often a different country from which the ship is from). Upon entering a harbor, the ship flies a special flag to request a pilot (vertical blue and white striped) while a half-red, half white flag divided vertically, indicates that a pilot is on board the vessel.
Ever wonder where some of our colloquialisms come from? You will be surprised at how many of them were born at sea. Here's a sampling:
A1: An accepted synonym for first-class in everyday language. In naval terms, in Lloyd's Register, "A1" is the mark of a wooden ship of the first class, 'A' referring to the quality of her hull and '1' to the quality of her equipment. Above board: This term for honesty originated in the days when pirates would hide most of their crews below decks, to trick some unsuspecting victim. A ship that displayed its crew openly on the deck, aboveboard, was obviously an honest merchantman. All hands on deck: Everyone should gather together to their stations or positions and prepare for action. It is used nowadays to mean "to gather together for some task or other. As straight as the crow flies: British coastal vessels customarily carried a cage of crows. These birds hate wide expanses of water and head, "as straight as the crow flies," to the nearest land when released at sea. This was useful to vessels lost in foggy coastal weather before the days of radar. The lookout perch on sailing vessels became known as the crow�s nest. Bale out: The term is usually used in the sense of getting out of some situation - particularly a financial one. However, the verb to bale out, means to remove water, and comes from the old name 'boyle' for a bucket. Bamboozle: Today, when you intentionally deceive someone, usually as a joke, you are said to have bamboozled them. The word also was used in the days of sail, but then it meant to deceive a passing vessel as to your ship's origin or nationality by flying an ensign other than your own�a common practice by pirates. From the 17th century, it described the Spanish custom of hoisting false flags to deceive (bamboozle) enemies. Barge in: The word barge has two nautical meanings. First as a term applied to a flag officer's boat or highly decorated vessel used for ceremonial occasions. The second usage refers to the more common, flat-bottomed work boat which is hard to maneuver and difficult to control. Hence the term "barge in." Batten down the hatches: The real hatches are the things that cover the hatchways: gratings and close-hatches. A great deal of water can come aboard either from the sea of the sky or both, so they used to cover those hatches with tarpaulins. The crew typically took battens�stout laths of wood that fit against the coaming (the raised rim of the hatchway)�and pinned the tarpaulin down to cleats on the deck�drum tight. Bigwigs: The senior officers in the English Navy, who once wore huge wigs, were referred to a "bigwigs." Bitter End: If a sailor were to pay out all of the anchor warp (chain or rope) until he reached the bitter end, then he would have no more to give out. The bitter end also refers to the end of the "starter" (a short rope knotted at on end) used for punishment. We talk nowadays of having reached the "bitter end" when we mean that we can go no further in a task or other venture. The landlubber's phrase "stick it to the bitter end" and "faithful to the bitter end" are derivations of the nautical term and refer to anyone who insists in adhering to a course of action without regard to consequences. Booby Hatch: A booby hatch is a small, covered compartment under the deck, toward the bow. Sailors were punished by confinement in the booby hatch. The term has come to mean a mental institution. All Above Board: "All above board referred to the fact that boards or planking which made up the decks are in plain view; hence, anything that was stored above board was in plain view of everyone. Nowadays we tend to use "going overboard" in the sense of going to far in our reaction or in some venture. "All above board" has come to be synonymous with honest dealings.
Carry on: In the days of sail, the officer of the deck kept a weather eye constantly on the slightest change in the wind so sail could be reefed or added as necessary to ensure the fastest headway. Whenever a good breeze came along, the order to "carry on" would be given. It meant to hoist every bit of canvas the yards could carry. Pity the poor sailor whose weather eye failed him and the ship was caught partially reefed when a good breeze arrived. Through the centuries the term's connotation has changed somewhat usually meaning an order to resume work. Clean Slate: It was the custom in sailing ships to record the vessel�s courses, distances and tacks on a log slate. The new watch would always start with a clean slate if things had been growing fine, disregarding what had gone before and starting anew. In a similar way, today, we refer to a new beginning or a second chance in life as starting with a "clean slate." Davy Jones' Locker: Seamen's slang for the bottom of the sea. There are several theories as to the origin of the expression: One is that Davy Jones was the owner of a sixteenth-century London pub where unwary sailors were drugged and put in lockers, and then awoke aboard ship to find they had been press-ganged into the Navy. Devil to pay: Devil and the deep blue sea: In traditional wooden ships, the sailors had to caulk or pay the seams with hot tar between the planks of the deck to prevent leakage into the bilge. The devil seam was topmost on the hull next to the scuppers at the edge of the deck and the longest and most difficult seam to caulk. Hence, if there was the "devil to pay," then this was the most difficult and dangerous job since the sailor might be knocked down (scuppered) by a large wave and find himself between the "devil and the deep blue sea." The former phrase has come to mean that there will be a big price to pay for a particular action; the latter now refers to being on the horns of a dilemma. In the doldrums: Doldrums is the name of a place in the ocean that is located either side of, and near, the equator. It is characterized by unstable trade winds or even lack of winds for days, if not weeks, at a time. A sailing ship caught in the Doldrums can be stranded due to lack of wind. If the situation was bad enough, or if danger threatened, the boats might be launched in order to tow the ship until the wind picked up. Today, if we are in the doldrums, we feel stagnated or even morose. Mind your P's and Q's: Sailors would get credit at the waterfront taverns until they were paid. The innkeeper kept a record of their drinks, and he had to mind that no Pints or Quarts were left off of their accounts. Today, the term usually refers to manners. Passed with flying colors: This comes from sailing ships that, when passing other ships at sea, would fly their colors (pennants, flags) if they wanted to be identified. Nowadays we tend to mean by this phrase that a person has passed an exam or test or trial with great marks. Pipe Down: A boatswain's call denoting the completion of an all hands evolution, and that you can go below. This expression is now used to mean "keep quiet" or "quiet down." Port and Starboard: Originally, the old sailing ships (like the Vikings), didn't have a rudder, and were steered by a board on the right side. This came to be the "steerboard" side or starboard. The other side was called "larboard" at first, but since the side with the board could not be against the dock, the left when facing forward, it became known as the "port" side. Round robin: The term originated in the British nautical tradition. Sailors wishing to mutiny would sign their names in a circle so the leader could not be identified. Today the term is often used in sports and competitions to denote a series of games in which all members of a league play each other one time. Scuttlebutt: A small drinking ladle with scuttles or holes in it to discourage sailors from idle chit chat (scuttlebutt) around the water barrel while their water ration dribbled back into the barrel. Today the usually refers to gossip or the latest news concerning a given situation or person. Shape up: A helmsman working off a lee shore would point up and "shape up" to his course in order to avoid the danger. In modern-day usage it is used similar sense to "smarten up" or "pull yourself together." Showing your true colors: Early warships often carried flags from many nations on board in order to elude or deceive the enemy. The rules of civilized warfare called for all ships to hoist their true national ensigns before firing a shot. Someone who finally "shows his true colors" is acting like a warship, which hails another ship flying one flag, but then hoisted its own flag when the vessel got within firing range. Skyscraper: A small, triangular shaped sail that was set above the mains on the old square-riggers to try to scrape�catch�more wind in areas of calm air. The term came ashore to represent anything that was tall enough to "scrape" the sky. Slush fund: The fat obtained by "scraping the bottom of the barrel" by the ship�s cook and secreted away in his "slush fund" for selling ashore to candle makers, tanneries, etc. The words now describe a rainy-day fund or cash reserve. Another version of the term�s derivation is that the grease (slush) from frying the salt pork on a voyage was kept and sold when the ship returned to port. The money raised was put into a "fund" for the crew. Square meal: This expression came from the meals served on square wooden platters used on board ship. The platters could be easily stowed in racks between meals. Any substantial meal is now described as a "square meal." Three Sheets to the Wind: A term said of a man under the influence of drink. A ship with three sheets in the wind would "stagger to and fro like a drunken man". Conversely, a drunken man staggers to and fro like a ship with three sheets in the wind. To Know the Ropes: There were miles and miles of cordage in the rigging of a square rigged ship. The only way of keeping track of and knowing the function of all of these lines was to know where they were located. It took an experienced seaman to know the ropes. Under the weather: Refers to a sailor being in the uncomfortable position of having his station at the weather bow and being subject to the pitching of the boat and constant spray blown in his face. Used in the modern-day sense of not feeling well or perhaps even of feeling slightly depressed.
*Part of this listing was compiled with the help of the Leicester Overseas website at leicesteroverseas.com
Cruise Liner: A large ocean-going vessel that is really a self-contained floating resort. Usually the ship cruises at a leisurely pace and in calmer waters.
Dive Boat: A dive boat is a vessel that is consistently used for diving and is equipped with scuba diving equipment. The main focus of these ships are dive trips.
Expedition Ship: An expedition ship is designed to cruise remote waterways. These ships usually have a shallow draft and often have an ice-hardened hull, designed to push through broken ice. They feature Zodiacs (inflatable rubber boats with outboard engines) that are used for exploration and shore landings. Expedition ships focus on natural history and culture and have on-board educational programs.
Ferry: Usually a large ship equipped to handle automobiles and passengers. Small ferries act as commuter conveyances in urban areas and do not carry vehicles.
Icebreaker: An icebreaker is specifically designed for breaking through sea ice. The collapse of the Soviet Union forced cash-strapped research institutions to lease research ships and icebreakers to adventure tour operators as a way to earn hard currency. Travel to remote Polar Regions such as the North Pole or the Far South to visit emperor penguin rookeries requires icebreakers. Icebreaker programs generally focus on natural history and culture, and have on-board educational programs.
Motor Yacht: A motor yacht is a small ship that usually holds no more that 20 passengers..
Ocean Liner: Large passenger ship designed for travel on the ocean at a higher speed than cruise ships and able to withstand rough seas such as in the North Atlantic..
River Barge: A large flat-bottomed vessel built for navigating rivers and canals. Originally this type of vessel was used to carry cargo. Today luxury vacation barges ply the rivers and canals of Europe. Barge sizes range from small enough for a single family up to over a hundred passengers.
Riverboat: This is a smaller vessel designed specifically for river cruising. Styles vary depending on the region. They are not designed for open ocean travel and generally reflect local culture and style. Some examples are paddle steamers on the Mississippi River, Amazon River boats, and luxury Nile cruisers.
Sailing Vessel: A sailing vessel is any boat that has the ability to travel under sail. In many regions such as the Gal�pagos and the Caribbean, sailing vessels typically use a combination of sail and motor power to ensure sufficient distances are traveled
Schooner: Dating back to 19th-century ships, a vessel that is multimasted and furls triangular sails. The foremost mast is always shorter than the others.
Small-Ship: A small ship is similar to an expedition ship in style, but is not designed for extremely remote or prolonged open ocean cruising. They usually have tenders instead of Zodiacs, and many carry sea kayaks and other recreational craft. Small ships tend to ply more sheltered waters, such as the Inside Passage to Alaska, Mexico's Sea of Cortez, etc. While guides and naturalists are usually present, there is generally a lighter approach to learning when compared with expedition ships.
Steamboat: A small vessel used for inland waterways. Sometimes referred to as a paddlewheeler.
Tall Ships: Sailing vessels, usually two or three masted.
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