Talk:HMS Vindex (1915)

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Good articleHMS Vindex (1915) has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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DateProcessResult
December 8, 2011Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 3, 2010.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that a Bristol Scout from the British aircraft carrier Vindex made the first interception of an airship by a carrier-based aircraft on 2 August 1916 when it attacked a Zeppelin with explosive Ranken darts?

Unreferenced claims in lead[edit]

Noticed that this had been nominated for GA and had a quick look over it: I can't do a full review at the moment as I'm going on holiday; but if it is still around when I'm free, I'll take a full look. The bits in the lead referring to the ship's service as a ferry for the Isle of Man is only listed there, not anywhere in the body of the article, against the priniples of MOS:LEAD. This information is additionally not referenced. I would suggest including this information in a new section between the existing Description and conversion and Service sections, and include references in that section. Harrias talk 20:14, 2 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

LZ 17 or L 17[edit]

Other sources states that C.T. Freeman on august 2. 1916 unsuccesfully attacked the L 17 instead of LZ 17, what is right and what's the source of this article? --Ribewiki (talk) 00:19, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • The Origins of Air War: Development of Military Air Strategy in World War I, by Robert F. Grattan (2009). ISBN 9780857715340
  • Bristol Scout#Operational history
  • The Bristol Scout - flightglobal.com 3. October 1958
  • Bristol Scout - forum.worldofwarplanes.com