Talk:Texan sloop-of-war Austin

Schooner?
The vessel pictured is not a schooner, it's a full-rigged ship. Also, a sloop-of-war is not an alternative term for a 3-masted schooner. Lexiconius 19:49, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Actually, it seems to be a bark, being full-rigged except on the mizzenmast. However, old paintings and prints are notorious for erroneous details.64.3.33.116 20:16, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

While it's true that period depictions of ships often are inaccurate, both of those associated with this article clearly show a ship-rigged sloop: the mizzen has a full complement of square sails in addition to the typical driver (and a marked absence of gaffs on the main and fore masts). So either the ship is misclassified in this article's sources, the depictions are inaccurate, the Austin was re-rigged a some point in her career... or perhaps all of the above? Chang E 21:27, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

I would like to point out that, according to Jonathan W. Jordan's book Lone Star Navy, the Austin is, in fact, called a Sloop-of-War, as were many smaller full ship-rigged naval vessels at the time. This article needs to be corrected. --Tex98 23 March, 2008


 * So, hearing no objections, I will correct this article and related articles, changing the "schooner" Austin to "sloop-of-war" Austin. - Canglesea (talk) 01:48, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Renaming to 'sloop-of-war' completed. - Canglesea (talk) 04:31, 11 June 2008 (UTC)