Talk:Brazilian battleship Aquidabã

Construction
Conway's 1860-1905 gives the date she was laid down as 18 June 1883, which seems to contradict the statement that construction began in May of that year. Is there anything more specific in the source (i.e., was there some sort of modular construction that began before the keel was laid?) Parsecboy (talk) 23:26, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Parsec! I was hoping you'd stalk me here. ;-) The source for that is the Brazilian Navy's official history, but they only give May 1883 and nothing more. Since Conway's and Miramar both give that specific date, add it in&mdash;replacing "May"&mdash;and we'll use an explanatory note for the discrepancy. Thanks dude, — Ed   (talk  •  contribs)  04:14, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me :) I've added about all I can from Conway's. Oh, do you have any idea what "IC" means in terms of steam engines? Conway's says "2-shaft IC, 8..." I can't for the life of me figure out what IC means. Parsecboy (talk) 11:58, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks a bunch, Parsec. I have no idea what it means; perhaps it has something to do with the coal (maybe a certain type of coal)? I only say that because Miramar says "2C", as in 2-shaft coal-burning. — Ed   (talk  •  contribs)  12:43, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Other Languages
I noticed that this article doesn't link to the article in Portuguese. Alhead (talk) 21:24, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I didn't know how to do it, but now I do. Alhead (talk) 21:53, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you. :-) — Ed   (talk  •  contribs)  00:24, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

First battleship sunk by torpedo?
The Brazilian article on the Gustavo Sampaio cites a contemporary Navy document claiming that the action of 1894 was the first torpedo vs. ironclad kill in history. This seems rather far-fetched; do any scholarly sources support this? Fvasconcellos (t·c) 12:27, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Failed GA for lack of completeness.Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 04:05, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

I've confirmed that she was the second warship, after the Chilean frigate Blanco Encalada in 1891, to be sunk by a Whitehead torpedo. Warship International 45:4 (2008), p. 290–91--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 05:58, 12 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Ah yes, my copy of Conway's 1860-1905 confirms that; it states on page 410, in reference to the 1891 revolution, "Most of the navy supported the anti-government party but one vessel which did not was the torpedo gunboat Almirante Lynch which sank the Blanco Encalada - the first successful use of the self-propelled torpedo against an armoured ship." Parsecboy (talk) 13:12, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

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