Talk:Pink (ship)

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Wait: are they slow and sluggish or fast and flexible? Which one? zafiroblue05 | Talk 22:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

--They're both. Depends whether you're looking at them in their historical context. That new part of this article is dismal though. . . 'pink' from the colour of reefs? Preposterous. We already know where they got their name from. However, the first part says they're slow and sluggish because they're square rigged, which is a totally absurd claim. I'm going to change it. Sigma-6 (talk) 18:30, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Wait again: the picture (c. 1900) of what look to me like two small cutters doesn't fit the description (large-capacity square-rigged cargo vessel) at all. Which is correct? Is either? 64.60.100.162 (talk) 23:57, 20 April 2012 (UTC) I've made so bold as to remove the picture to here for the time being. 64.60.100.162 (talk) 00:03, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

"In 1693, they (Edmond Halley and Benjamin Middleton) made a proposal to the Admiralty for an expedition to find ways of improving navigation at sea, in particular by studying terrestrial magnetism in different parts of the globe. ......on the direct order of the Queen (Mary II) a small ship, a kind known as a pink, was built specially for the task and launched on 1 April 1694. (When William of Orange invaded England in 1688, his fleet had included sixty pinks.)  She was known as the Paramore, and was just fifty-two feet long, eighteen feet wide at her broadest and drew nine feet seven inches, with a displacement of eighty-nine tons......for a voyage to the far South Atlantic (originally the idea was for a voyage around the world!)"   John Gribben, History of Western Science 1543-2001, The Folio Society 2006.80.176.138.207 (talk) 17:00, 24 April 2012 (UTC)