Talk:Sixth-rate

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The Template:Wiktionary which redirects to Template:Move to Wiktionary was removed as this article is one of six ratings of the Rating system of the Royal Navy. This stub is to be developed further as noted in Talk:Rating system of the Royal Navy. Please do not move this article. Thanks, Petersam 03:35, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

First paragraph is navigational aid
Please do not remove the first paragraph as it functions as a quick navigational aid to the other articles in this series. Thank you. Petersam 03:54, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

18 officers seems too much for such a small ship.
18 officers seems a little much. Counting the officers (commissioned, warrant, mids), I only count 13, where are the other 5 then? --ProdigySportsman 04:36, 22 October 2006 (UTC) -just thought of one more officer, Captain of Marines. That still leaves 4 UA. --ProdigySportsman 04:38, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Capitalisation
It has become apparent that the words "first rate", "second rate", etc have become capitalised over the last year or so. This seems to me to directly contradict the guidance at Manual of Style (capital letters), and I have changed them back again. To clarify, if we were talking about frigates, we would use lower case, because it's not a proper noun; "first rate" is exactly analogous. The usage on Category:Set indices on ships follows the lower case usage almost exclusively, as far as I can tell. Please address any concerns here before making wholesale changes back again.

On another note, some of the hyphenation has been rather patchy. Adjectival use will require a hyphen (first-rate ship) but when used as a noun (first rate), it does not. Again, I've made the changes were I've spotted the need.

Apologies if I've missed any or introduced any errors, since we all err from time to time. Shem (talk) 22:31, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Fiction
The "Atropos" in "Hornblower and the Atropos" (C.S. Forester)is also a sixth rate although a sloop-of-war rather than a frigate. Davidt63 (talk) 11:57, 16 July 2011 (UTC)