Talk:Fourth-rate

Grammar
I fixed a lot of the appalling spelling and punctuation, but more needs doing. Quite disgraceful.

First paragraph is navigational aid
Please do not remove the first paragraph as it functions as a quick navigational aid to the other articles in this series. Thank you. Petersam 03:53, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

puns
I love the pun in the external links section. So very Jack Aubrey...
 * Heh, it didn't even occur to me when writing it, must have been subconscious prankster at work! Stan 04:47, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * It is indeed amusing. =) 152.23.196.162 07:02, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Good Article!
Really good article! Well done to everyone who worked on it. DangerousNerd talk  00:27, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Capacity?
Unlike the articles on the 3rd, 5th and 6th rates for example, there is no mention here about the capacity in terms of number of men the 4th rates carried. Can anybody find out?

Capitalisation
It has become apparent that the words "first rate", "second rate", etc have become capitalised over the last year or so. This seems to me to directly contradict the guidance at Manual of Style (capital letters), and I have changed them back again. To clarify, if we were talking about frigates, we would use lower case, because it's not a proper noun; "first rate" is exactly analogous. The usage on Category:Set indices on ships follows the lower case usage almost exclusively, as far as I can tell. Please address any concerns here before making wholesale changes back again.

On another note, some of the hyphenation has been rather patchy. Adjectival use will require a hyphen (first-rate ship) but when used as a noun (first rate), it does not. Again, I've made the changes were I've spotted the need.

Apologies if I've missed any or introduced any errors, since we all err from time to time. Shem (talk) 22:29, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Not a ship of the line
In the easy navigation part at the end of the page, 4th rank ships are under the title "Ships of the line" even though they were not suitable to be one. By renaming the title "Frigates" to "Warships/Frigates", one could replace it over that section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.54.243.153 (talk) 16:31, 14 July 2020 (UTC)