Talk:Raphael Semmes

Admiral Chekov
Maybe I'm nitpicking, but as I understand it, in the U.S. in the 1860s, the rank of admiral didn't exist. It was "flag officer". Trekphiler 13:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * No, not nitpicking, just wrong. The rank was created early in the war.--172.191.0.44 (talk) 20:15, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Just for the sake of clarification (and in the interest of being less bitchy than I was above), I believe the rank of Rear Admiral was created early on during the Civil War, while the rank of Admiral (that is, "full" Admiral) was indeed a post-War creation. I get in moods. Syphilis eats the brain, you know.--172.190.34.136 (talk) 06:23, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 03:28, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

-- DUH the ship off galveston was a SIDE wheeler! typical wikipedia Leave out ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.173.206.159 (talk) 20:33, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Arne Saknussemm
I've removed the claims about the origins of Verne's character's name as a likely hoax. No other source I can find suggests anything of the sort. -- The Anome (talk) 00:29, 10 June 2020 (UTC)


 * I have now put in much more context to this claim and referenced it to the original website. Tranmere Robur (talk) 18:15, 19 October 2022 (UTC)