Talk:HMS Regulus (1785)

GA Review

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Nominator: Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk · contribs) 22:10, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: Zawed (talk · contribs) 08:16, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

I will review, comments to follow in due course. Zawed (talk) 08:16, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Lead

• ...taking soldiers to the Hanover Expedition in 1805.: the "to" implies a place/destination, which "Hannover Expedition" isn't.

• Reworded.

• When the wars ended...: suggest rewording due to potential confusion between War of 1812 and Napoleonic Wars.

• Reworded.

Design

• Regulus was a 44-gun, 18-pounder Roebuck-class ship.: Because you mention 1769 in the next sentence I wonder for a bit of additional context you should say something like ...Roebuck-class ship that was completed in 1785.

• Because this is the section focused on the design of the ship rather than her own "life" I would prefer to not duplicate the construction section. Won't die on this hill if you think it necessary though

• From 1751 to 1776 only two ships of this type...: should that be From 1769 to...? This is referring to the design of 1769 isn't it?

• It's referring to Roebuck and HMS Phoenix, which ship Roebuck was an improvement of. The source, Winfield, dates the period of low construction as from 1751, so I've stuck with that to demonstrate the lack of adoption of the type.

Construction

• Inconsistency between text and infobox regarding the number of guns on the upper deck in 1793.

• Corrected, think I just missed the "-two" in main text!

English Channel

• No issues spotted

Jamaica Station

• The vessels captured were a ship, brig, and armed schooner.: it seems odd that a ship was captured...anyhoo, shouldn't be "a brig, and an armed schooner"?

• Changed. The sources are sparse for descriptions of these captured vessels, so unfortunately I can't provide any useful detail!

More to come. Zawed (talk) 09:18, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Picking this up again:

Egypt and Hanover

• 4th paragraph: worth noting what station she was serving on at this time?

• The sources don't say. Without explicit wording I don't want to guess, with options including the Channel Fleet, Downs, Western Squadron, or something more ad hoc

North America

• Regulus continued in the Chesapeake,...: suggest "Regulus continued operations in the Chesapeake,..."

• Done.

• Perhaps more context as to who Spalding was?

• Added a little

Sources

• Mixture of old and new sources used
• For the Clowes ref, should there be a hyphen or colon in the title after "The Royal Navy"?

• The source doesn't use one so I've avoided doing so as well

• Spot checks of refs: 9 (OK), 10 (Supports the capture of Dutch ship Zuyderberg, assume the rest of the material in the sentence comes from ref 6), 15 (doesn't support Magicienne having 36-guns, otherwise OK), 22 (OK), 35 (OK)

Other stuff

• Dupe link: Frigate

• Removed

• Image checks OK
• Earwig's Copyvio Detector doesn't flag any issues.

That's my review done. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 10:07, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

@Zawed: Hi! Believe I've actioned all of your comments. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 19:32, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

OK, happy with all this. Passing as GA as I believe that it meets the necessary criteria. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 09:26, 23 October 2024 (UTC)