Talk:1889 in the United States

German ships in Samoa listings may be duplicates
There are two entries under 1889 that may be duplicates:

''March – A German naval force shells a village in Samoa, destroying some American property; three American warships enter the Samoan harbor and prepare to fire on the three German warships found there. Before guns are fired, a hurricane blows in and sinks all the ships, American and German. A compulsory armistice is called because of the lack of warships. '' and

''May 15 – In Samoa, 3 U.S. and 3 German ships sink in a typhoon because the captains refuse to leave before the others; almost 200 drown. The British steamer Calliope saves itself by pushing into the wind with full speed. ''

I don't know the history but find the listings too similar. Thank you Tsadowski (talk) 02:47, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Alright, it took me 4 years but I did find an entry in Wikipedia of all places called the Samoan Crisis which states in part:

''"The Samoan Crisis was a confrontation standoff between the United States, Imperial Germany and Great Britain from 1887–1889 over control of the Samoan Islands during the Samoan Civil War. The incident involved three United States Navy warships (the sloop-of-war USS Vandalia, the screw steamer USS Trenton, and the gunboat USS Nipsic) and three Imperial German Navy warships (the gunboats SMS Adler and SMS Eber and the corvette SMS Olga), keeping each other at bay over several months in Apia harbour, which was monitored by the British corvette HMS Calliope.

The standoff ended on 15 and 16 March when a hurricane wrecked all six warships in the harbour."

I have a suspicion that you can't cite Wikipedia to support another article in Wikipedia / Also I am not a historian or any kind of expert on the matter; I have no confidence to edit the page yet. Unless someone steps in, I will build my case before actually editing the page. Thank you. Tsadowski (talk) 01:56, 15 April 2017 (UTC)