Talk:HMS Archer (D78)

Further source
Can any Swedish speaking editor use this source to expand the article?
 * Have you tried Google Translate? — Ed 17  (Talk /  Contribs)  05:22, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Out to launch
"Launch accelerator"? Is that the official term, or did somebody change it from catapult? If it's just changed, I suggest changing it back; otherwise, will somebody add the more common term? TREKphiler  any time you're ready, Uhura  23:03, 12 February 2011 (UTC)


 * At the time when fitted to an aircraft carrier they were termed 'accelerators'. When fitted to a capital ship or cruiser they were termed 'catapults'.


 * A capital ship or cruiser-carried aircraft was fitted with floats so the 'catapult' included a cradle for the support of the float(s)/hull. A carrier-based aircraft was a land plane that used it's own undercarriage and hence only needed to be accelerated rather than also being supported by the device as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.173.52 (talk) 16:57, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Sunk or scrapped?
The article says that she was scrapped - but wikiminiatlas shows her lying near the remains of USS America off the American east coast.  Brookie :) { - he's in the building somewhere!}  (Whisper...) 12:46, 8 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Definitely scrapped. The miniatlas actually gives two locations for Archer, taken from the article. One is the location of the collision with Brazos, the other is the location at which planes from Archer sank U-752. It's an odd weakness of the atlas system that it plucks these details from the article automatically, without contextualisation. Benea (talk) 12:52, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

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