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French frigate La Reunion (1786)

 * ... that, prior to her capture on 20 October 1793, La Reunion (pictured battling the Crescent) was one of the most successful French frigates operating in the English Channel?
 * ALT1:... that when HMS Reunion (pictured battling the Crescent) was wrecked in the Thames Estuary, not a single life was lost?
 * Reviewed: William Paynel

Created by Ykraps (talk). Self nominated at 17:40, 28 January 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Article is new (moved from sandbox 28 Jan). Long enough (5145 characters (883 words) "readable prose size"). Appears to be neutral in tone and supported by suitable citations. Unable to check for copyvio/close paraphrasing as mostly offline sources. Image is tagged PD-old. QPQ done. I'm not sure about the first hook as "one of the most successful" is difficult to quantify - at least one other is named in the article but could be more. ALT1 is OK (AGF for offline source) but I am unsure from the sentence in the article if "Sunk Sand" is a specific place & should be "The" or whether this is just "a" sandbank. I would also appreciate clarification in the article about how/why the captain "wrecked the ship" but was later exonerated - was this deliberate or accidental? &mdash; Rod talk 18:13, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Also in ALT1 could Thames Estuary be wikilinked for those who don't know where it is?&mdash; Rod talk 18:27, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I accept that 'successful' is difficult to quantify and I thought it might be questioned which is why I provided an alternative hook. The ship was accidentally wrecked on the Sunk Sand which is the name of a sandbank in the Thames estuary. The source says Bayntun was exonerated of blame but doesn't say why. Presumably this was after a court martial which would be usual following the loss of a ship but again the source fails to say.--Ykraps (talk) 19:20, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I have only ever seen it referred to as Sunk Sand or Sunk Sands, without the 'the' capitalised.[] [] A second source says she was sunk in the Swin, which I believe is the channel between the sands.
 * Symbol voting keep.svg OK thanks for the clarifications. I think ALT1 is fine now.&mdash; Rod talk 21:29, 31 January 2014 (UTC)