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City of Everett[edit]

According to this article, the City of Everett was a very significant vessel in her own right, as well as being an important example of a whaleback design. However, she does not have her own article (as of 21:25, 24 August 2007 (UTC)), although a number of less important ships do (such as her relation the Christopher Columbus (whaleback)). (The Everett link above is (strangely) redirected to Museum of Flight, which (briefly) mentions an aircraft of the same name, the first 747.) Not being a big shipbuilding fan or anything, I'm not the right person to write that article, but I sure wish somebody would... Eaglizard 21:25, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unclear[edit]

The article is vague about what is so unique about this ship design's appearance. The lead paragraph mentions that it is named because of its unique design, but then forgets to mention what is so unique about it. A brief description of that should probably be in the first paragraph or two. I'm still unclear about it, so I won't attempt it myself. Neil916 (Talk) 00:43, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently, (from what I grab from the article) "whaleback" means that the water flow across the deck of the vessel is improved or optimized.

However, this is also true for submarines. As far as I can tell from the srticle, submarines should therefore also be classified as whalebacks. --80.134.46.181 (talk) 12:14, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And wait, I just remember a much more recent design, a "ship on legs". It consists of two hulls which are completely submerged. The superstructure sits on "legs" connected to the hulls, similar to the superstructures on the historic whalebacks (which sat on turrets). The advantage is that the hulls are completely below the water surface and therefore unaffacted by waves (also somewhat similar to the historic whaleback ships, where waves would go over the hull, affecting the ship less than more conservative vessels).

The new design is of course patented, even though it appears to be just an extreme implementation of the whaleback design. --80.134.46.181 (talk) 12:23, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed it from its description in paragraph 5 or 6. Tha editors appeared to want to make you read the whole article, then tease it out. Edit as necessary or post again if it is still not clear. I hate it when the FA takes you to a link in its first sentence that is worthless. Very carelessly done. --Blechnic (talk) 17:41, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Better, thanks. Neil916 (Talk) 00:50, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Pig Boats"[edit]

This term also was used in reference to submarines prior to and during WWII. Sca (talk) 17:31, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Citations[edit]

Those portions of the article that I contributed are drawn primarily from Wilterding's book, listed among the references. I did not consider it appropriate to have numerous citations all referencing the same source.RDavS (talk) 15:24, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Attribution[edit]

Additional text and refs. Copied from Whaleback to SS Clifton See former's page history for list of contributors. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:03, 21 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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