Talk:SS Ville du Havre

Mrs. C. A. Platt
According to [| this source] (scroll down), the mentioned passenger Mrs. Platt was born Catherine Amelia Woolsey on 19 May 1819 to Henry Livingston Woolsey and Eunice Hubbell. She married William Floyd Platt (1814-1844). OfficeBoy (talk) 13:32, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

description of collision
If the helmsman "ported his helm" is means that he acted as if a tiller was pulled to port thus turning the boat to starboard. (The phrase caused much confusion particularly with wheel steering and was abandoned and instead the helm would now be asked to turn to port or starboard) The text then goes on to say that though the helm was to starboard a collision occurred. It is not clear what is meant by that. Should it state instead that the course was now to starboard - not the helm? Or less probably was there another course correction with the helm to starboard negating the first correction. I cannot access the reference material to tell from the original — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.235.118.50 (talk) 10:16, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Cause
I don't suppose there is any information as to how two ships managed to collide in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean? It seems like very bad luck.Bill (talk) 04:28, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

SI Units
This article does not follow the manual of style in that it lacks SI units, see MOS:UNIT. Avi8tor (talk) 04:19, 22 November 2022 (UTC)