Talk:Ship/Archive 1

Misc comments

Comments originally not under a heading follow:

• Changed hold in ship terminoligy from the disambigueshed page to a real page for it.. I made that page but its the same definition as here so it needs some work

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Removed image

Removed fanciful image of ship:

[[:Image:steamer.jpg|thumbnail|Ship, created by Welleman]]

as irrelevant, probable selfpromotion/vanity. The image should probably be deleted. --Jerzy(t) 20:05, 2004 Dec 23 (UTC)

Ship vs. boat

Discussion of ship vs boat belongs in Watercraft, which would obviously link to both, and could be referenced by both. --Jerzy(t) 20:05, 2004 Dec 23 (UTC)

Ships in the Bible ?

Why is there a specific section about "ships in the Bible" ? I would understand a subsection of the "ships in litterature" section or something similar, but like this it looks a little bit odd, doesn't it ? Rama 13:05, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Leftover from early days of WP, Easton being freely copyable and often used to seed articles. The ship article should be rewritten from scratch to match scope and content with rest of present-day WP; it's on my "get around to it" list... :-) Stan 16:24, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Coaming

The main purpose of the hatch coaming is not to "prevent water..." but to provide additional strength to the deck, to compensate for the steel lost to the huge hatches. Could somebody research this a bit and make the change in the relevant place.

The main purpose of a coaming is to keep the water on deck from pouring into the hull as noted. Please do not change the article. Jmvolc 19:55, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Measuring ...

I have cleaned up the Hull (watercraft) article and added a link to it. Jmvolc 19:57, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Type of ship

Can we put the linkage of type of ship into the page? Type of Ship People can reach the terms of ship type easily. Dmsc89313:58, 28 October 2006

ships

ships are so cool everyone should like them\ cause i really do

Ship image

What is it? The flags only tell me it's Dutch, but I don't know what caption should go along with it. JRM · Talk 12:52, 2005 May 6 (UTC)

Or better yet, use one of our thousands of nice color photographs of actual ships, preferably one of the sort one would actually see in a port. IMHO, the lead image in a general article should be our highest-quality photo of an individual that is the most exemplary of the class as a whole. Stan 22:04, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Shipping accidents/sinkings

Hello,

Is there a page listing all the shipping accidents and sinkings; e.g. Titanic, Andrea Doria, etc.?

Try List of shipwrecks. (RJP 09:29, 5 December 2005 (UTC))

Power to weight ratio line

The marine steam turbine developed by Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, brought the power to weight ratio down.

Should this not be "up"?