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I have removed the majority of the penultimate paragraph:
"After she was fitted for war service as a seaplane carrier, she took out the aerial appliances which were used to sink the German light cruiser 'Konigsberg' in the Cameroons River, steaming all the way from England at 22 knots. Returning to the Suez Canal, she did good work in the Near East, until set on fire by the Turks. She fought their guns for 11 hours until the fire reached her own explosives."
This mangled piece of misinformation seems to have been taken from the reverse of a post-WW1 souvenir picture postcard of the Ben-my-Chree. [1]
The Ben-my-Chree was in the Dardanelles at the time of the Konigsberg blockade, and the 'aerial appliances' used in spotting the Konigsberg were Caudrons and Farmans which the B-m-C didn't carry anyway. The Ben-my-Chree was abandoned after approximately 30 mins. shelling from the Turkish mainland, as the referenced 269 Sqn. history shows. MinorProphet ( talk) 23:21, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
While wandering through ship images in the Commons:State Library of Queensland collection/donation, I came across the image File:StateLibQld 1 133753 Ben-My-Caree (ship).jpg, under the name Ben-my-Caree. The photo, looking at the aft quarter of a sinking ship, looks like it may be Ben-my-Chree...a mistake in the metadata? Would someone more knowledgable be able to identify if the ship is Chree, and update the info at Commons appropriately? -- saberwyn 04:14, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Zawed ( talk · contribs) 10:08, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
I'll do this one.
I have done a quick pass over of the text, and fixed the odd typo. I also rephrased a few things for sake of clarity. Other than the comments above, this is all good. Zawed ( talk) 10:08, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Both issues fixed. Thanks for the review.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 19:29, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
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I have removed the majority of the penultimate paragraph:
"After she was fitted for war service as a seaplane carrier, she took out the aerial appliances which were used to sink the German light cruiser 'Konigsberg' in the Cameroons River, steaming all the way from England at 22 knots. Returning to the Suez Canal, she did good work in the Near East, until set on fire by the Turks. She fought their guns for 11 hours until the fire reached her own explosives."
This mangled piece of misinformation seems to have been taken from the reverse of a post-WW1 souvenir picture postcard of the Ben-my-Chree. [1]
The Ben-my-Chree was in the Dardanelles at the time of the Konigsberg blockade, and the 'aerial appliances' used in spotting the Konigsberg were Caudrons and Farmans which the B-m-C didn't carry anyway. The Ben-my-Chree was abandoned after approximately 30 mins. shelling from the Turkish mainland, as the referenced 269 Sqn. history shows. MinorProphet ( talk) 23:21, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
While wandering through ship images in the Commons:State Library of Queensland collection/donation, I came across the image File:StateLibQld 1 133753 Ben-My-Caree (ship).jpg, under the name Ben-my-Caree. The photo, looking at the aft quarter of a sinking ship, looks like it may be Ben-my-Chree...a mistake in the metadata? Would someone more knowledgable be able to identify if the ship is Chree, and update the info at Commons appropriately? -- saberwyn 04:14, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Zawed ( talk · contribs) 10:08, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
I'll do this one.
I have done a quick pass over of the text, and fixed the odd typo. I also rephrased a few things for sake of clarity. Other than the comments above, this is all good. Zawed ( talk) 10:08, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Both issues fixed. Thanks for the review.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 19:29, 27 March 2013 (UTC)