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Date	Process	Result
October 28, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed
February 12, 2012	WikiProject A-class review	Approved
November 14, 2012	Featured article candidate	Promoted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 2, 2011. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that during the British aircraft carrier Argus's 1920 Spring Cruise with the Atlantic Fleet, three of her aircraft were blown over the side of the carrier?
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Striking down

Striking down WRT aircraft means to stow aboard ship, in particular to stow in the hanger. It includes the act of physically moving the aircraft to the stowage place and lashing it to the deck using the tie down points. - Nick Thorne ^talk 05:31, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Girdling

Another technical term which needs explanation is "girdling". I searched Google and Dictionary.com (even Wikipedia!) but only came up with references to horticulture. I assume that girdling in the naval sense means a ring of extra metal added to the ship's hull, to lower the center of gravity. It would be nice if an expert could clarify this. Scartboy (talk) 21:05, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment and comments

I'm assessing the article as B-class, although a few comments/observations:

The paragraph dealing with the funnels/exhaust/ventilation (particularly from the deletion of the each-side funnels and rerouting the exhaust onwards) reads very confusingly to me.
- How does it read now?
"Second World War" is a fairly long section for the size of the article. Is there any way some of the content could be sub-sectioned or split off? (maybe from when she entered repair after the bomb hit?)
- There really aren't any good places to split it since most of it is dedicated to the Malta runs.
Is there any particular reason behind only wikilinking to standard displacement in the body of the article, and deep load displacement in the infobox, even though both locations give both values?
- Fixed.
I've done a spellcheck for British English (well, actually Australian English, but nobody will notice the difference). Hope you don't mind.

Hope this helps -- saberwyn 21:01, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

- Appreciate it, I'm always glad to be double-checked on BritEng. I'm fairly good, for a non-native speaker, but there's a lot that I'm sure that I miss. Thanks for looking it over.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 21:22, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - The exhaust issue is now a lot clearer. As for BritEng, the major spelling differences are that "ze" becomes "se", and we like to through extra "u"s in between "o" and "r" for no apparent reason :P -- saberwyn 22:47, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Being really picky, -ize endings are allowed in the Oxford variant of BritEng, but -ise is more common. The Victorians put -e's on the end of a bunch of words, to make them sound more French and sophisticated - axe and programme are common examples. Plus various other things, like we use -ium for metallic elements including aluminium.... FlagSteward (talk) 20:04, 2 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

HMS Audacity

It is written that HMS Audacity was sunk in convoy in mid november 1942, but she was sunk in december 1941. HMS Audacity is the wrong ship here.

Quite right. Good catch.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:00, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Experimental carrier

The text of Washington treaty only states that experimental carriers can be replace without regard for their age not that they do not count towards the total carrier tonnage. 2A00:23EE:2810:1CF0:CB51:9853:F860:583 (talk) 14:18, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Was she a drone carrier?

"it was decided to refit the ship as a tender for Queen Bee target drones." This is a part of the article. Can we add "drone carriers category" to the article? -- Iri1388 (talk) 19:58, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]