Talk:Anti-fouling paint

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Corrections were made in the penultimate paragraph, based on a closer reading of the citation (currently cite #5 in the main article) of a Feb. 10, 1900 letter sent from the U.S. Navy to the U.S. Senate's Committee on Naval Affairs (eventually absorbed into the newly formed Senate Armed Services Committee in 1946). In the following two paragraphs copied from page 17 of cite #5 and pasted here, the directly relevant text is in the second paragraph (which I bolded). The first paragraph is provided for context.


 * The first country to take the initiative step in building iron vessels for the navy was Great Britain. The Dover, a small paddle steamer, was built in 1839, and was followed by the Alert, Soudan, and Wilberforce, all of small size. It was not until the year 1843, however, that the building of war steamers of iron began; the first, the Trident, of 850 tons, was built by Ditchburn & Moore. During the next three years 34 iron steamers were built or purchased for the Government, among which were the Birkenhead and Megæra. The latter was lost in 1871 through circumstances that are likely to occur again to any iron steamer, namely, corrosion of skin plates to such an extent that they almost dropped from the frames. France followed England closely in the new departure in shipbuilding, and both countries soon possessed a large number of iron steamers.


 * But soon a temporary reaction took place, caused by the discovery of the tendency of iron ships to foul. In fact, such was the alarm felt by the Admiralty in 1847 at the formidable character of this kind of mischief, that it threatened to fix a limit to the employment of iron ships for naval purposes. The board had commenced selling, and were debating about the sale of all seagoing iron ships. The discovery of an antifouling paint that gave very fair results caused the Admiralty to reconsider its contemplated action; the iron vessels were retained and the building of that class continued.Sharl928 (talk) 23:19, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

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