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Be a Ship's Detective by discovering what these pictures are. Share your ideas with your shipmates at your school. Check on the answer on this page next week and see who's the best detective.
Mystery Picture #21
CLUE: The wind up, the pitch, and . . .
QUESTION: Who do I play for? The Orioles, the Yankees, the Diamondbacks? the ???
Mystery Picture #20
CLUE: I've arms that don't fly but they do good work. Give me a line and I'll tie it down tight.
QUESTION: What am I and where do I do my work?
Mystery Picture #19
CLUE: I'm smaller and I'm darker than others in this land,
but my ancestors have been here a lot longer than they.
QUESTION: Who am I and where do I live?
Mystery Picture #18
CLUE: I'm made of rope and I span the sea. You may think I'm
Neptune's ladder, a rock-a-bye-baby crib, or a fish net for giant squid.
QUESTION: What am I REALLY?
Mystery Picture #17
CLUE: Can't catch me because I race over the waves like a sleek stone skipping over the surface of a pond. I touch down now and then -- just to make sure the waves haven't forgotten me.
QUESTION: What am I and where am I going?
Mystery Picture #16
CLUE: I wave and flap in the breeze like a sail, only I'm not a sail
QUESTION: What am I and where do I do my flapping?
Mystery Picture #15
CLUE: Some weird new antenna to communicate with Mars? Ship of alien space invaders? Genetically altered species of turnip?
QUESTION: What am I and where am I located?
Mystery Picture #14
CLUE: Twist and turn, in and out. Stack me up, round and about.
QUESTION: What am I and why am I stacked up like this?
Mystery Picture #13
CLUE: I lie flat on the deck so you'd hardly notice
I was there. But down below -- wow! what I difference I make. You'd live like a bat without me.
QUESTION: What am I?
Mystery Picture #12
CLUE: Without me you'd need a sky hook to raise the sails.
QUESTION: What am I and what do I do?
Mystery Picture #11
CLUE: I've a dazzling white crown to keep me safe. "Snow,"
you say? Think again. You're not the only one with sensitive skin, you
know.
QUESTION: Who am I and and what's this white stuff?
Mystery Picture #10
CLUE: I tell exactly what your legs already guess. Look to me to tell you not the force of the wind, not the height of the waves, not speed of the boat -- but ALL of them put together.
QUESTION: What am I and what do I measure?
Mystery Picture #9
CLUE: From east to west, we let our fingers do the talking.
QUESTION: What does this say?
Mystery Picture #8
CLUE: I curl up in a nice tight nest. But don't mess with me -- I'm not a little squirt!
QUESTION: What am I, and what am I used for?
Mystery Picture #7
CLUE: I can huff and I can puff and I can BLOW your ship down! It's no fluke that that I'm the biggest guy around.
QUESTION: What am I?
Mystery Picture #6
CLUE: Wrap me up and sew me tight! I help keep this schooner sailing trouble free.
QUESTION: What am I and what am I used for?
Mystery Picture #5
CLUE: "As your new Watch Leader I want to see things shipshape
around here. So get a move on, you boobies!"
QUESTION: Who am I?
Mystery Picture #4
CLUE: "My teeth are STRONG so I can bite down on a heavy load."
QUESTION: What am I?.
Mystery Picture #3
CLUE: "Give me a little nudge, and I'll take you wherever you want to go."
QUESTION: What am I?.
Mystery Picture #2 Click on the image for a larger view
CLUE: "I spin and twrill all day and night. I clear the air and keep
things fresh. And I help put smiles on lots of faces three times a day."
QUESTION: What am I?.
Mystery Picture #1 Click on the image for a larger view
CLUE: "Climb in me and I'll keep you afloat. I may be new but my name is
old."
QUESTION: What is "Chasseur?"
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