Talk:HMS Frobisher (D81)

GA Review

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Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 03:39, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Design and description

• "This change could only be applied to the three least-advanced ships, including Effingham, although she did not receive the full upgrade." - This copied and pasted from the Effingham article? Looks like you forgot to switch out the name of the ship.
  • Damn computer!
• I know some ships had a different crew strength when serving as a flagship. Is this applicable here?
  • Maybe, but nothing in the sources.

Construction and career

• "has been the only ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy" - Might be worth a footnote that HMS Parker (1916) was apparently known as Frobisher for a decent chunk of its construction
  • I thought about it, but decided against doing so since Parker was renamed before completion and so didn't actually serve in the RN under that name.
• "In 1929–1930 the ship served with the Atlantic Fleet,[10] By June 1930 her - Period, not a comma
• "By June 1930 her aft superfiring gun had been removed to provide space for a floatplane" - Okay, so I'm half-asleep as a review this, so maybe this is just a comprehension issue, but " four of which were in superfiring pairs fore and aft of the superstructure," sound to me like there were two aft superfiring guns, so its unclear which was removed
  • Superfiring pairs means one gun superfiring above the other, not two guns superfiring over another

References

• The Dreadnought Project is an iffy source. It looks like one of the higher-quality wikis, but it's still a wiki.
  • Yes, but's one with the editors vetted by the operators, who are reputable scholars.
    • It'll be fine for GA, I guess, but I'd expect a better source for higher levels. Hog Farm _Bacon 15:06, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
• Campbell isn't used
• Need a location for Heathcote

Other

• It's in a category for being built in Portsmouth, but the prose says it was built in Devonsport

Unrelated to this article, but worth a thought

• The dab page HMS Frobisher could conceivably be reduced to dual hatnotes per WP:TWODABS, unless there's a third Frobisher not listed there.

That's it for this one. Hog Farm _Bacon 04:08, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for looking this one over.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 13:39, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Wrong Henry Parker linked

Linked to this person: Henry Parker (Royal Navy officer) (born 1963) --Maxrossomachin (talk) 17:55, 31 December 2021 (UTC)