Talk:HMS Guerriere (1806)

Cleanup 2006
Beginning edit of this work as it is nowhere near Wiki standards. Tirronan 19:01, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Rating Correction
I'm not entirely sure that the armament information in the ship infobox in correct. Theodore Roosevelt, on page 40 of "The Naval War of 1812" gives the Guerriere's armament at the time of its last fight as "30 long 18's", "2 long 12's", "16 short 32's (carronades)", and "1 short 18". This seems much more like a 38-gun frigate's armament than what is given in the infobox, and I am thus correcting the error. Keegsshipguy (talk) 21:08, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Cleanup 2008
Is the letter att he bottom really necessary for this article? It looks like a text dump from somewhere, lacks any breaks and is hard to read. While it might be relevent, a link to it would be better. Having it here is not encyclopaedic. --205.157.110.11 (talk) 16:08, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The text is at Wikisource now. I've cleared it from here and added a link to it, as I agree it overwhelms the rest of the article, and is not really appropriate anyway. This is what wikisource is for. Benea (talk) 21:32, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

May 25, 2009 - query - Ship's log. Does anybody know if the log of the Guerriere survived? I ask in effort to establish if there were civilian passengers aboard. It seems very unlikely that a warship would be carrying passengers, but there is an oral history in my family that some members were aboard. Surfcitytom Surfcitytom (talk) 00:13, 26 May 2009 (UTC)


 * If the log survives you will find it in the US National Archive. I know that HMS Java was carrying civilians. I've never heard mention of the same with Guerriere.Tirronan (talk) 02:39, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Unclear, please clarify
Sentence from article as of 2AM New York City time, Jun 8, 2020: Guerriere was too badly damaged to take in, so as soon as the wounded had been taken off, she was set on fire by her captors, Constitution returned to … UNQUOTE So what happened to the NON-wounded? I'm reluctant to believe that they were burned alive with the ship, but at present the omission of the non-wounded from those rescued is a very strong implication that the burning/drowning/abandoning of the non-wounded is what happened.204.155.230.3 (talk) 06:02, 8 June 2020 (UTC)Christopher L. Simpson