Talk:French battleship Danton

Discovery
Might it be wise to include the location of the wreck in lat/long? I note the BBC News is carrying images and videos which appear to have a numeric East and North measurements, but converting them out is the question... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7898890.stm 78.32.62.65 (talk) 09:38, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * took me while to work out how to convert using coordinates in the source but have done so and added to article, Tom B (talk) 15:27, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Laying down date
Lack of dates of laying down always annoys me. Here is what I have so far:


 * says "10.1.08".
 * says "2.06".
 * says "2.06".
 * says "February 1908".
 * The contemporary says "Mai 1908".

The most damning piece of evidence against a 1906 laying down is a report from the 1909 edition of the Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers p. 677 which says the slip Danton was built on wasn't even ready until 1908. C'est la vie. --Harlsbottom (talk | library | book reviews) 18:26, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Quite a commendable collection of sources you've got! I'd say write 1906, 1908, or 1906/08 (wherever you think the evidence leans) in the infobox and then add all the info you've got right above here in a footnote. Joshdboz (talk) 19:52, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Photos
Here. Parsecboy (talk) 20:35, 26 July 2016 (UTC)