Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Greek battleship Salamis/archive1

TFA blurb review
Ed and Parsecboy (and anyone else interested): I'm at least looking at and thinking about blurbs for all the 4th quarter 2017 FACs ... but you guys will have no problem with this one whenever it shows up. Also, some standards for ship blurbs are in flux ... so I think I'll leave this one alone for now. If anyone wants to do a blurb for it, great. - Dank (push to talk) 01:30, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Salamis was a partially constructed capital ship, referred to as either a dreadnought battleship or a battlecruiser, ordered for the Greek Navy from Germany in 1912 as part of a Greek naval rearmament program. This was meant to modernize the fleet, in response to Ottoman naval expansion and a naval arms race between the two countries. The design for Salamis was revised several times. The final version envisaged an armament of eight 14-inch guns in four turrets and a top speed of 23 kn, faster than other battleships of the period. Work began in July 1913, and the hull was launched in November 1914. Construction stopped in December 1914, following the outbreak of World War I in July. The German navy used the unfinished ship as a floating barracks. The ship's American-made guns could not be delivered due to the British blockade, and were sold to Britain for the four Abercrombie-class monitor monitors. The hull of the ship was scrapped in 1932.

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Hi and anyone else interested: a draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:59, 19 February 2020 (UTC)