Talk:Chinese gunboat Tsao-kiang

Contradictions
There are several contradictions if this article with other articles. This article writes the ship was later known as Japanese "Soko" and interwiki links to ja:操江. There we have the first contradiction: Whereas here is written the ship was launched 1876 for the Nanyang Fleet and a weight of 572 tons, the Japanese article writes 1869 for the Beiyang Fleet and a weight of 640 tons. The article Nanyang Fleet lists the gunboat Caojiang / Ts'ao-chiang 操江 - note the same Chinese characters and that Tsao-kiang may be a older romanization - with launch date 1869 and also a weight of 640 tons. Thus, obviously the Nanyang Fleet article and the Japanese one refer to the same ship but not to the one described in this article.

Furthermore, this article writes the Tsao-kiang was captured at the Battle of Pungdo. However the article Nanyang Fleet does not mention that the fleet engaged in this battle. However the Beiyang Fleet did. In its article as well as the more detailled Chinese one we find an auxiliary ship with the same name (Caojiang "操江"). Battle of Pungdo lists three ships: Tsi-yuan (済遠), Kwang-yi (広乙), the Tsao-kiang (操江), and links the last to here. The Tsi-yuan and the Kwang-yi are part of the Beiyang Fleet - the latter is not mentioned in our article but the Chinese lists a ship names 廣乙/广乙, whereas 広 seems to be either a Japanese variant of 廣 or a simple misspelling instead of 广. This indicates that the ship Tsao-kiang in the article Battle of Pungo refers to the auxilliary ship of the Beiyang Fleet.

Maybe this auxilliary ship was launched 1876 and had a weight of 572 tons, but neither was is part of Nanyang Fleet nor became it the Soko as written in this article. --Mps (talk) 13:16, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Corrected and solved--Felis domestica (talk) 10:49, 30 May 2011 (UTC)