Talk:Texan sloop-of-war Austin
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Schooner?
[edit]The vessel pictured is not a schooner, it's a full-rigged ship. Also, a sloop-of-war is not an alternative term for a 3-masted schooner. Lexiconius 19:49, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Actually, it seems to be a bark, being full-rigged except on the mizzenmast. However, old paintings and prints are notorious for erroneous details.64.3.33.116 20:16, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
While it's true that period depictions of ships often are inaccurate, both of those associated with this article clearly show a ship-rigged sloop: the mizzen has a full complement of square sails in addition to the typical driver (and a marked absence of gaffs on the main and fore masts). So either the ship is misclassified in this article's sources, the depictions are inaccurate, the Austin was re-rigged a some point in her career... or perhaps all of the above? Chang E 21:27, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
I would like to point out that, according to Jonathan W. Jordan's book Lone Star Navy, the Austin is, in fact, called a Sloop-of-War, as were many smaller full ship-rigged naval vessels at the time. This article needs to be corrected. --Tex98 23 March, 2008
- So, hearing no objections, I will correct this article and related articles, changing the "schooner" Austin to "sloop-of-war" Austin. - Canglesea (talk) 01:48, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
- Renaming to 'sloop-of-war' completed. - Canglesea (talk) 04:31, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Further Reading
[edit]To the bibliography (Further Reading), add C L Douglas, Thunder on the Gulf (1936); and Tom Henderson Wells, Commodore Moore and the Texas Navy (1960).
Reading the histories of the Texas Navy closely, I found they often contradict each other; that is, one said the Zavala was off the Yucatan but another said it was in Galveston on a given date.
However, all the histories agree that a shot from the Austin carried away the smokestack of the Guadaloupe (I believe), which reduced the draft in the burner for her steam engine. She turned to run for port on the steam remaining and the Montezuma (or Moctezuma) followed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.229.94.76 (talk) 15:58, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
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