Talk:C-class destroyer (1913)

How do Category:A class destroyers (1913) & Category:B class destroyers (1913) rate belonging to Category:Royal Navy destroyers but C class destroyer (1913) do not ? Esp. when the first sentence contains "...was a heterogeneous group of torpedo boat destroyers (TBDs) built for the Royal Navy ...". please explain. Exit2DOS2000  •T•C• •  09:22, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * They don't and they shouldn't, the category Category:Royal Navy destroyers is for actual individual ships and not pages about the class. The class pages belong as a in the relevant subcategory of Category:Royal Navy destroyers; which you will observe Category:C class destroyers (1913) does, as do the other classes. The article C class destroyer (1913) belongs in Category:C class destroyers (1913), which it also does. Emoscopes Talk 09:33, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

HMS Cobra (1899)
This 4-funnelled turbine-driven 'Special' was a 4-funnelled destroyer which, if it had survived until 1913, would have become a 'B' Class destryer, and not a 'C' Class. All sources confirm that Cobra was (retrospectively) categorised as 'B' Class; I have consequently moved her entry to the 'B' Class destroyer page and deleted her from the 'C' Class page. At the same time, I have added the Fawn to the 'C' Class page as the latter (Palmer) vessel had been overlooked. Rif Winfield 19:07, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Shipbuilders - correction of names and locations
I have noticed that several of the shipbuilders' names - and the location of their yards - are those for later variants of their corporate history, and did not apply at the time that the turtle-backed destroyers were built. For example, Yarrow & Co were still at Poplar (on the Thames) until 1906 (when they moved to Scotstoun), so all the early TBDs built by them were constructed at Poplar. Thornycroft was in a similar position, with all their TBDs built at Chiswick until 1904, when they began a move to Woolston, Southampton; however that situation seems to hav been catered for in writing this article. A second problem is that John Brown and Company at Clydebank did not come into existence until 1899, until then they were the firm of J & G Thomson, who were responsible for all the Clydebank TBDs. A third example is Cammell Laird at Birkenhead; until 1903 this firm was simply Laird Brothers. Again, I have put this right in the articles (sources are too prolific to mention, but for example the cited book by David Lyon quoted this correctly). Rif Winfield 19:39, 24 September 2007 (UTC)