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Q15: What are the four ships?

yamilah
Member
#1 · Posted: 24 May 2006 19:27
Which book holds four ships, two of them being named & drawn, and the other two just named?

Please quote album + four names + page + frame.
mondrian
Member
#2 · Posted: 25 May 2006 13:32
Does it have to be exactly four? Shooting Star has many more:

Pictured: Aurora (p.14-->), Sirius (p.31), Golden Oil (p.31), Peary (p.40) and a few unnamed ones.

Named: lots of ships on p. 40. (Ville de Lyon, Ville de Nantes etc.)
yamilah
Member
#3 · Posted: 26 May 2006 11:20
mondrian
Does it have to be exactly four? Yes!

Shooting Star has many more. Yes, so many that they aren't all quoted in Tintin at Sea!

Here is the clue:
The drawn ships are the SIRIUS & the UNICORN.
yamilah
Member
#4 · Posted: 27 May 2006 22:07
The book is Red Rackham Treasure, of course.
After the SIRIUS & the UNICORN, here's a last clue: the 4th ship is the TITANIC (p.55, C-3, in a comment made by Haddock about the Unicorn).

3rd ship still to be found!
chevet
Belgium Correspondent
#5 · Posted: 28 May 2006 16:26
On page 51 frame 8 of the actual edition, you can see the name of the 3rd ship on Thompson's hat: REDOUTABLE.
In the first editions (at least, as far as I know in French but probably in other languages too), this name was readable on other pages too.
This name was erased on all pages except on page 51.

congratulations Yamilah, it was a difficult question !!
yamilah
Member
#6 · Posted: 29 May 2006 11:44
chevet
Congratulations to you, chevet! You certainly deserve one point! This ship's name actually reads SEDOUTABLE, which doesn't make much sense, and is mentioned neither in Tintin at Sea, nor in De Abdallah a Zorrino books!

Your turn to pose a question, chevet!


What can be said about these four ships' names, in the light of Tintin's unique world?

The SIRIUS does a long distance two-way trip across the Atlantic Ocean.
The UNICORN was wrecked long ago, in 1698.
The REDOUTABLE is linked with a spelling mistake & with the Thompsons busy around the wrong Eagles' cross.
The TITANIC's prow is potentially replaced by the Unicorn's wooden one, in Haddock's comment made to Calculus.

It seems the four* ships named in Red Rackham Treasure -the only book with that amount of ships- do respectively match SPACE + TIME + FAULTS* + VIRTUALITY*, in a row...

* please search for related threads,
and see Tintin & Julius Caesar thread on https://www.tintinologist.org/forums/index.php?action=vthread&forum=8&t opic=1464
edcharlesadams
Trivia Challenge Score Keeper
#7 · Posted: 29 May 2006 13:54
One point to chevet, and his turn to give the next question.

Ed

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