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Japanese ironclad Kongō

 * ... that the Japanese ironclad Kongō (pictured) was one of the two ships that returned the survivors of the wrecked OTTOMAN FRIGATE Ertuğrul to Turkey in 1891?
 * Reviewed: Tachikawa air disaster

5x expanded by Sturmvogel 66 (talk). Self nominated at 00:21, 16 September 2013 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg 5x expansion confirmed from roughly 225 words to over 1300 words. Length OK, a spot check of a few sources using snippet views on books shows no signs of obvious plagiarism or close paraphrasing.  QPQ checks out, image is in the public domain due to the age of the photograph.  Hook is below the limit and is interesting.  Can I ask, in relation to the hook, what the source Contributions to the History of Imperial Japanese Warships is exactly?  I see a subscription is required and an e-mail address provided to subscribe; is the source some kind of book or trade publication, a website, or something else?  If there is no website dedicated to the source, how were you able to obtain the e-mail address exactly?   I, JethroBT  drop me a line 02:44, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Lengerer is the author of numerous articles and a couple of books on ships of the IJN. Contributions is a newsletter that he and Ahlberg publish twice a year. The email address was published in a review of Contributions in Warship back in '08 or so, which is where I noticed it. Warship is a hardback journal published annually.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 05:12, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg Wow, good find. It's an unusual, but helpful addition to the article.  AGF on the hook, given the offline source.  I, JethroBT  drop me a line 05:30, 17 September 2013 (UTC)