Talk:HMS Cumberland (57)


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The result of the debate was move. &mdash; Nightstallion (?) 09:11, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Requested move
HMS Cumberland (C57) → HMS Cumberland (57) – C57 is the incorrect pennant number for the ship, 57 is the correct as all County class cruiser have no letter in front of number — copied from the entry on the WP:RM page

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 * Support - Why are we even voting on this? It appears to be a pretty straight forward case of the original article being named incorrectly. --Kralizec! | talk 05:15, 24 January 2006 (UTC)


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Timeline Conflict
The article states that Cumberland escorted Russian convoys from October 1941 to January 1944, and yet also won battle honours in North Africa in 1942. She can't have done both. If she was in North Africa in 1942, she must have had at least a temporary break from the Russian convoys. Does anyone know enough about this to correct it ? (sorry, I don't). GeraldH 11:10, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Longest Commission
"At 31 years she holds the record for the longest-commissioned ship in the Royal Navy, after HMS Victory." - not convinced by this. Surely the second place was held by HMS Monmouth (1667), which was in very active service for a spectacular 100 years? In fact I would think that there were quite a number of ships of the line that were retained in commission, even if as static training ships, far beyond the life of most 20thC steel warships. --Ndaisley 19:28, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree, plus HMS Caroline (1914) is officially the second oldest warship in commission with the RN. She has 93 years on the clock and is still going. 31 years is also not very much when it comes to ships of the age of sail.  Picking one at random, HMS Bellerophon (1786) made 50 years quite comfortably.  So this 31 year record seems to be an unsupported, wholly untrue invention.  Benea 21:26, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Duh, spot the obvious mistake about Bellerophon, that she wasn't in commission for her last years! But the point stands, as it was stated, it was untrue.  The sources say she was quite old for her time, most of the pre-war ships had been already scrapped, Cumberland only survived as long as she did because she was being used as a trials ship.  But I think someone read a bit more into that than they should have.  I've now removed it from the text. Benea 23:26, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Possible use in Suez crisis
I am sure I have seen reports that HMS Cumberland was at one time intended to be used in the plan in the early stages of the 1956 Suez Crisis, to bombard the city of Alexandra, but the use of the cruiser, presumably with the Mk 26 twin 6 inch was seen as too much a crime against a historic and beautiful city, and the Cumberland sailed back to Britain and the last two French battleships Richelau and Jean Bart were also withdrawn from the action. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.97.52.141 (talk) 22:48, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

If you peruse the titles of the pages for the search HMS Cumberland, the ships bearing this name are all listed using the format HMS Cumberland followed by the year, all bar the final two which were HMS Cumberland (57) and HMS Cumberland (F85). I tried modifying the search page, however I don't know how to change the page titles of these two pages to HMS Cumberland (1926) and HMS Cumberland (1986 respectively) so I've changed this back. Hopefully someone out there does know how to do this. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stingray9x9 (talk • contribs) 16:37, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

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