Talk:General Armstrong

Disambiguation and accuracy
There were a number of privateers from New York called the General Armstrong. Niles' register lists 4 different masters. I think this article should be about the one commanded by Chester C Reid. I started one here User:Jgb2/General_Armstrong(1812_privateer) but stalled when I ran into the ambiguity issue.

The master of the General Armstrong that attacked the Fanny was Guy R Champlin

Is there a standard way to disambiguate references to ships? all the contemporary sources use a format: Ship,Master as there were many duplications of names.

I will try to merge my research into this page Jgb2 (talk) 11:42, 10 November 2012 (UTC)


 * I note that the content from User:Jgb2/General_Armstrong(1812_privateer) has been pasted into the article despite the problems mentioned by Jgb2 here. Unfortunately the IP editor has pasted the visible text, not the wikitext, so the content has been added without its formatting or footnotes. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:22, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

I have added the refs from User:Jgb2/General_Armstrong(1812_privateer) Jgb2 (talk) 23:23, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

I have managed to establish that Champlin and Reid were both captains of this vessel, and that the crew were released from Dunkirk. Thus eliminating most of the ambiguity. Jgb2 (talk) 11:47, 20 August 2015 (UTC)