Talk:Potosi (barque)

Hallo anon, I've nominated the article at Template talk:Did you know. You might want to register an account to get the credit for your work in case it is accepted. -- Matthead Discuß   06:07, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Name of the ship
Is the ship named Potosi – no diacritical mark – as it is currently titled, or is it Potosí – with an acute accent over the letter i – as appears in the text? If the latter, the article should be moved. — Bellhalla (talk) 23:37, 12 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I know no source that uses the diacritic for the ship, it's either Potosi or POTOSI. Many modern day Germans, especially on Wikipedia, have the habit of obediently adopting anything foreign. German Wikipedia has a policy of using Polish and Czech names for places that had German names for centuries, adding the German name in parentheses, marked as German. I guess some eager beavers do not hesitate to apply the modern day spelling of the city for the 19th century German ship, because it should have been named that way, politically correct. -- Matthead Discuß   01:39, 13 January 2009 (UTC)


 * The ship name was styled "Potosí" in only a minority of places in the article, so I have removed it, leaving, of course, the references to the town with diacritics intact. I also created a redirect from Potosí (ship) to help cover all bases. — Bellhalla (talk) 04:56, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Flying P tradition
The article states that the ship was named beginning with a "P" according to a "tradition". As far as I know, the Potosi was the first in the line of "Flying Ps". Which means that this ship wasn't named as per tradition, but established the tradition. The only book I have available says that Preussen was the second flying P, launched in 1902. That makes Potosi the first.Amandajm (talk) 05:33, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Ignore this. I checked it out. A number of smaller ships began the P line. Amandajm (talk) 05:51, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Can anyone add an explanation to this article as to what made these ships so successful in rounding the horn? That's arguably the line's biggest 'claim to fame', but it's never really spelled out why there were so effective at doing it in comparison to the hundreds of other ships whose difficulties in rounding the horn made it a notorious ship graveyard. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.211.10.234 (talk) 23:14, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

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