Talk:Ship's boat

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I have deleted the picture of one of the whaleboats of USS Constitution and substituted another picture. This is because the boat shown is not a typical whaleboat of the age of sail, but is a confusing (and confused) recreation of this type of boat, built for the 1927-1931 restoration. One reason why this image is confusing to the reader is that one might reasonably presume that Constitution has whaleboats of an authentic pattern, representative of this sort of craft during the age of sail. Unfortunately this is not the case. This is clear from, written by Matthew Brenckle, the former historian for the Constitution Museum.

The history of restoration work to Constitution is provided by, an article written by the current historian to the museum. It explains the poorer historical interpretations that were used in previous work.ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 20:23, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

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I think instead of "communication" it should be "transer of persons and material". It depends on if "communication" includes transfer of goods and persons, which I think technically it might, and as used in a naval context it might. Don't know -- landlubber. Thus I didn't change it.

But even if so, I think that a typical reader would think of "communications" as "information exchange". I so, then ship's boats don't provide this anymore, as a rule. But they still provide transfer of persons and material a fair percentage of the time, so that would be the "always provided thing". So for my part I think it should be change. Herostratus (talk) 23:22, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I have grappled with the communication/always issue. When radio arrived, it replaced some of the need to collect/receive mail and instructions from the ship's agent/owners. However there would still have been personal mail, and commercially or militarily confidential content would have to wait for encrypted systems. I think the communication issue only disappears in the last decade or two, with secure e-mail, etc. However, I do not have an RS that says that. You will see one change that I have made, but I think this simply compounds the problem that is highlighted here. I will see if I can come up with something better. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 07:21, 20 April 2023 (UTC)