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Although commonly referred to as "Captain class frigate" the correct name for this class as given by the Admiralty is "Captains class frigate", (note the plural Captain).
Thefrood 02:23, 28 January 2007 (UTC) Thefrood 02:20, January 28 2007 (UTC)
Has anybody any Public domain pictures of any Captains? Thefrood 15:37, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
A nice touch, but I'm not sure about having a picture of a DE in it, The USS Evarts is NOT a Captain class and as such in my opinion does not belong in the infobox. I originally had this picture placed in in the Evarts section as a close approximation of an Evarts Captain class. Anybody got an opinion on removing it from the info box? Thefrood 19:28, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
I've changed the out of service date in the Infobox to 1956. HMS Hotham K583 (DE 574) was returned to the US Navy on March 13, 1956 - she got stuck in Singapore as a floating power station, there was a big who-ha when the Royal Navy needed to sail her back from Singapore as they had no engineering staff that knew how the Buckley's novel power plant worked. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thefrood ( talk • contribs) 02:37:49, August 19, 2007 (UTC).
This article is definitely much improved, but it will need inline citations to move up to B-Class and beyond. Ask if you have any questions! Carom 02:52, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
In Collingwood's The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War on page 110 in discussing a combat with E-boats at point blank range mentions "the Lewis gun on the bridge" being in use to emphasise the just how short range the combat had become. Question: Does anybody know how standard the Lewis gun fitting was, the passage of book that mentions this is in relation to HMS Trollope which had been fitted out as a coastal forces command frigate - was the Lewis gun unique to these or more generally fitted across the Captain fleet? -- Thefrood 13:00, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
In the section "Captain class frigates sunk or seriously damaged", I believe the statement that HMS Goodall was "the last British ship sunk in the European theatre of World War Two" is incorrect. The last British vessel sunk during WWII was actually the SS Avondale Park, which was torpedoed at approximately 2230hrs on the 7th May 1945, off the Firth of Forth, by U-2336 under the command of Kapitänleutnant Emil Klusmeier. Perhaps what was meant in the article, was that HMS Goodall was the last British WARSHIP, not ship. However, I cannot find any further references for warships sunk.
Refs: http://uboat.net/boats/u2336.htm http://uboat.net/types/xxiii.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.69.37.92 ( talk) 20:55, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
There seem to be some spelling inconsistencies in the names of ships. Examples: Burges vs Burgess, Domett vs Dommett, Bazely vs Bazeley. I have no primary sources as reference material, so I cannot research this. Perhaps someone else can?
"This all-electric drivetrain was considered particularly innovative at the time"
Really? Turbo-electric propulsion was old tech for US shipbuilders, having been used in New Mexico (1917) and the Tennessee (1919), Colorado (1921) and canceled South Dakota class battleships, as well as the Lexington class aircraft carriers (1927) and, in the WW2 era, in hundreds of troopships and tankers.
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Although commonly referred to as "Captain class frigate" the correct name for this class as given by the Admiralty is "Captains class frigate", (note the plural Captain).
Thefrood 02:23, 28 January 2007 (UTC) Thefrood 02:20, January 28 2007 (UTC)
Has anybody any Public domain pictures of any Captains? Thefrood 15:37, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
A nice touch, but I'm not sure about having a picture of a DE in it, The USS Evarts is NOT a Captain class and as such in my opinion does not belong in the infobox. I originally had this picture placed in in the Evarts section as a close approximation of an Evarts Captain class. Anybody got an opinion on removing it from the info box? Thefrood 19:28, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
I've changed the out of service date in the Infobox to 1956. HMS Hotham K583 (DE 574) was returned to the US Navy on March 13, 1956 - she got stuck in Singapore as a floating power station, there was a big who-ha when the Royal Navy needed to sail her back from Singapore as they had no engineering staff that knew how the Buckley's novel power plant worked. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thefrood ( talk • contribs) 02:37:49, August 19, 2007 (UTC).
This article is definitely much improved, but it will need inline citations to move up to B-Class and beyond. Ask if you have any questions! Carom 02:52, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
In Collingwood's The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War on page 110 in discussing a combat with E-boats at point blank range mentions "the Lewis gun on the bridge" being in use to emphasise the just how short range the combat had become. Question: Does anybody know how standard the Lewis gun fitting was, the passage of book that mentions this is in relation to HMS Trollope which had been fitted out as a coastal forces command frigate - was the Lewis gun unique to these or more generally fitted across the Captain fleet? -- Thefrood 13:00, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
In the section "Captain class frigates sunk or seriously damaged", I believe the statement that HMS Goodall was "the last British ship sunk in the European theatre of World War Two" is incorrect. The last British vessel sunk during WWII was actually the SS Avondale Park, which was torpedoed at approximately 2230hrs on the 7th May 1945, off the Firth of Forth, by U-2336 under the command of Kapitänleutnant Emil Klusmeier. Perhaps what was meant in the article, was that HMS Goodall was the last British WARSHIP, not ship. However, I cannot find any further references for warships sunk.
Refs: http://uboat.net/boats/u2336.htm http://uboat.net/types/xxiii.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.69.37.92 ( talk) 20:55, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
There seem to be some spelling inconsistencies in the names of ships. Examples: Burges vs Burgess, Domett vs Dommett, Bazely vs Bazeley. I have no primary sources as reference material, so I cannot research this. Perhaps someone else can?
"This all-electric drivetrain was considered particularly innovative at the time"
Really? Turbo-electric propulsion was old tech for US shipbuilders, having been used in New Mexico (1917) and the Tennessee (1919), Colorado (1921) and canceled South Dakota class battleships, as well as the Lexington class aircraft carriers (1927) and, in the WW2 era, in hundreds of troopships and tankers.