Template:Did you know nominations/HMS Gloucester (1654)
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- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Aoidh (talk) 01:19, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
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HMS Gloucester (1654)
- ... that HMS Gloucester was the first British ship to be named after the city of Gloucester? Source: Lavery, Brian (2003). The Ship of the Line. Vol. 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 978-0-85177-252-3. Page 221.
- ALT1: ... that HMS Gloucester, led by Robert Clark, intercepted a Dutch flotilla of twelve ships and captured seven of them? Source: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284370/page/n1/mode/1up. page 165 , https://archive.org/details/biographianaval09chargoog/page/n5/mode/2up?q=. Page 10-11
- ALT2: ... that a dispute led to HMS Gloucester taking a path that caused the ship to hit a sandbank, leading to it sinking? Source: In the sinking section of the article.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Rockstar Lincoln
Improved to Good Article status by Amitchell125 (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 15:19, 6 December 2022 (UTC).
- Please fix the hook formatting; "Gloucester" needs to be in italic font as it is a ship’s name. Schwede66 15:04, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
- Done, plus I removed the "the"s before the "HMS"s, per WP:SHIPNAME#Using ship names in articles. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 02:02, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
