User talk:Pkmitch

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Calburga
I'm trying to clean up your article on the Calburga, but I'm a bit confused. Your text indicates that Calburga had an enclosed wheelhouse, but this photo (on page 159 of Wallace's Wooden Ships and Iron Men) clearly indicates an unhoused wheel, and the text indicates that a wheelhouse was uncommon for this class of ship. Can you clarify your statement please? WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 15:46, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Following up on the above, I am finding that your entire article, while compellingly written (although not in a tone that is at all appropriate for an encyclopedia), appears factually incorrect. According to The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Calburga sank off the coast of Nova Scotia while on a short run from Halifax to Liverpool, Nova Scotia, not off the coast of Wales while on a trip to Liverpool, England.  You cite Wallace's Wooden Ships and Iron Men (using two different titles, one for the entire book, and one for the chapter) to verify details but the book actually contradicts the details you are attempting to verify.  For one, it does not mention the Strumble Head Lighthouse at all, nor any mention of the wreck of the Caliburga.  Can you help me understand these discrepancies?  WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 16:15, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
 * In this edit you changed the phrase "last square-rigger ever built" to "the only square-rigger of large tonnage still registered". The former phrase was concise and clear; the latter not so much.  For example: still registered when?  Is is still registered now?  Was it the last one still registered in 1910, but the another was registered later?  I'd like to change it back to the original.  WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 03:21, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

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