Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Simon Hatley

Simon Hatley

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/October 1, 2019 by Jimfbleak - talk to me?  12:21, 6 September 2019 (UTC)



Simon Hatley (1685 – after 1723) was an English sailor involved in two hazardous privateering voyages to the South Pacific Ocean. With his ship beset by storms south of Cape Horn, Hatley shot an albatross, an incident immortalised by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (illustrated). Hatley went to sea in 1708 under Captain Woodes Rogers, but was captured by the Spanish on the coast of Ecuador and was tortured by the Inquisition. Hatley's second voyage, under George Shelvocke, was the source of the albatross incident, recorded in Shelvocke's journal for 1 October 1719, and also ended with his capture by the Spanish, who held him as a pirate for looting a Portuguese ship. Hatley returned to Britain in 1723, though he hastily sailed to Jamaica lest he risk trial for piracy. His fate thereafter is unknown. In 1797, Wordsworth suggested Hatley's shooting of an albatross as the basis of a poem, which Coleridge published in Lyrical Ballads (1798).
 * Most recent similar article(s): Not aware of any
 * Main editors: Wehwalt
 * Promoted: 2018
 * Reasons for nomination: 300th anniversary of journal entry recording the albatross shooting.
 * Support as nominator. Wehwalt (talk) 03:56, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Support I had vaguely planned to use this date myself, for Rwandan Civil War. But the 300th anniversary of the shooting seems a good enough use. And 2020 will be the 30th anniversary of the Rwanda date so I might as well wait until then. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 16:25, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
 * It feels a little weird saying "blurb looks fine" when it's Wehwalt's nom ... but the blurb looks fine. - Dank (push to talk) 03:31, 25 August 2019 (UTC) P.S. I meant: it's basically Wehwalt's call, but I'm generally saying something one way or the other at TFAR these days. - Dank (push to talk) 04:11, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not wedded to the image if there's something else that would be better.--Wehwalt (talk) 06:40, 3 September 2019 (UTC)