Template:Did you know nominations/Shoeburyness Boom


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:40, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

Shoeburyness Boom

 * ... that the Shoeburyness Boom (pictured) was completed in 1953 to protect the Thames Estuary from Soviet submarines but was obsolete by the mid 1950s? ... 1950-53, when Admiralty plans record the construction of the replacement boom ... By the mid 1950s advancing technology, in the form of fast jet bombers, the hydrogen bomb and the capability of long-range rockets rendered the boom system obsolete and heralded its eventual, partial, demolition
 * ALT1:... that the Shoeburyness Boom (pictured) is the only known Cold War anti-submarine boom? the Shoeburyness boom is the only example known to exist, or to have been built, during the Cold War era.
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jerusalem, du hochgebaute Stadt

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 22:21, 27 October 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg age and size ok, written neutrally, no evidence of copyvio, QPQ done, hooks cited, ALT1 is snappier and sourced completely, original one does not date obsolescence in article, and is more cumbersome anyway. Good to go. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 14:20, 28 October 2017 (UTC)