Talk:Great Michael

Fight?
Did she see any action at all in her life (Confirmed action, I mean)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.229.224.133 (talk) 13:32, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Name?
What was her French name? Bastie 13:12, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

That's the point, we don't know, this has just been suggested as an avenue for research. PatGallacher 16:34, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

The French called her The Big Nave of Scotland.JERRY talk contribs 22:53, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure where I got this from, but I recall that The Great Michael was referred to as "La Grande Nef Ecossaise"

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008
Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 18:19, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Are the measurements right?
I was looking at the measurements, and the length looks right, but the beam (the width of the ship) being 11m seems way off. Can someone confirm that? That would be a really thin carrack! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ecdmuppet (talk • contribs) 20:27, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

william dunbar quote not authentic?
The quote from William Dunbar is given in modern English. Dunbar, however, wrote in Middle (mediaeval) Scots, so this quote has to be a translation, yet it is presented as the original and authentic text (and has been copied in that incorrect form throughout the internet). Could we please have the authentic text or, at least, a footnote stating that this is a translation, along with a link to the original source? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.240.11 (talk) 12:01, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Have inserted original quote and references. Ceartas (talk) 13:00, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Mons Meg?
Sorry, Brendandh, but the source you quoted doesn't go that far. The only sentence bearing on Mons Meg is "There is a suggestion that one of her guns was the famous Mons Meg, still to be seen in Edinburgh Castle." That is far too vague on which to base any level of assertion, even given the high probability that "there is a suggestion" = "some nationalist made a wildass claim based on no evidence beyond moonshine and hot air." Beyond that, extraordinary claims require extraordinary citations. Since anyone with knowledge of Age of Sail stability issues recognizes the utter absurdity of a ship such as Michael failing to founder from the sheer weight of a cannon far too large for any sailing ship, we need not only multiple definite sources, but I'd like to see some measure of contemporaneous sourcing as well.   Ravenswing   19:12, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Requested move 15 December 2016

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The result of the move request was: Moved per consensus and commonname below. Requested CSD#G6 to make way (non-admin closure) Tiggerjay (talk) 00:52, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Michael (ship) → Great Michael – This ship is usually known as the "Great Michael" e.g. the article by Norman Macdougall, important historian of the period, refers to it as such. This way we also avoid the need for a disambiguator. PatGallacher (talk) 23:11, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Just checked, a recent biography of Henry VIII of England by David Loades refers to it as the Great Michael. We should go for WP:COMMONNAME. PatGallacher (talk) 16:29, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Support per nom and common name. Row the boat ashore. Randy Kryn 19:32, 16 December 2016 (UTC)


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Reference [1]
Reference 1 is to Neil Oliver. He's an archaeologist, not a Historian, no matter that he is the talking head on a number of History programmes on the BBC. There must be a stronger reference? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.145.65.222 (talk) 20:16, 29 August 2020 (UTC)