Talk:HMS Lord Warden

Infobox image is probably a misidentified image of HMS Caledonia (1862).
Comparing the ship in the infobox photo to the plans and photos in Oscar Parkes' reference work British Battleships, this ship is clearly not Lord Warden or her sister ship Lord Clyde. This ship has a straight bow, while both Lord Warden and Lord Clyde had distinctly curved ram bows. Also, if you look carefully you can see the stubs of this ship's retracted funnels, one in front of and one behind the main (central) mast. The Lord Warden and Lord Clyde had both their funnels in front of the main mast. According to Parkes' book, the straight bow and the funnel locations of this ship both match those of the Prince Consort class.

In fact, looking at the web page from which this image was taken, it looks like two pictures simply got swapped. That page also has an image, labeled as HMS Caledonia (a Prince Consort-class ship), which shows a ship that looks like the Lord Warden, just as this image, labeled HMS Lord Warden, looks like a Prince Consort and is probably Caledonia. Since that other image is currently our Commons image for the Caledonia, it should be swapped with this one.

(See also my discussion entry for HMS Caledonia's infobox image.)

--Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 13:40, 13 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Looking into this a bit further, the original source of the swapped identification seems to be the publication from which the photos were taken, page 81 of the June 25, 1897 issue of The Navy & Army Illustrated. --Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 03:08, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Image renamed, text corrected, linking pages corrected. Rcbutcher (talk) 23:38, 16 November 2014 (UTC)