Talk:SS George Washington

Merge proposal
I'm proposing that three article on the same ship—SS George Washington, USS George Washington (1908), and USS Catlin (AP-19)—be merged into one article. (The latter two are essentially the same DANFS text.) The Catlin name is clearly less notable than the George Washington name. The ship's career before and after World War I under the name SS George Washington was equally notable but considerably longer than her career as USS George Washington, so I am proposing that all three be combined into SS George Washington. — Bellhalla (talk) 04:55, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It's always the best thing to do when you have 3 articles basically on the same subject and I would agree with the merge. --Brad (talk) 15:13, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Date autoformatting
Does anyone have any objections to not using date autoformatting (i.e., linking dates) for this article? I have taken the liberty of removing the date links, which are no longer required or encouraged under the Manual of Style. — Bellhalla (talk) 03:17, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

One of the WW1 voyages of SS George Washington
G. W. Garlock (then commander of the US Army 32nd Division, 128th Company) describes in his 1927 book "Tales of the Thirty Second" that "most" of the AEF 32nd Division left New York Feb 19, 1918 with troop transports including the "George Washington, Grant, Covington, Susquehanna and Pastores", and also "Manchuria" loaded with munitions, with armed escort that included the battleship "Huntington" and joined while under way by "DeKalb". He arrives in Brest, France on March the 4th, 1918. This caused me some confusion, since the USS Martha Washington (not to be confused with the SS George Washington) was also a troop transport in the same service, also moving troops of the 32nd Division in a separate convoy, but departing New York nine days earlier.