Talk:Razee

Why build anything else?

It would be good if the article could outline why ships were built in any other way in the first place. I can't do it, because I don't know why. John.Conway (talk) 11:16, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

As the understanding of ship design evolved, it was usually older ships that were treasted in this way to extend their life. Also in later years smaller ttwo or three deck ships that could no longer perform well in that role because enemy ships were now bigger and better armed, were razeed to change their purpose to that of a strong frigate rather than a small ship of the line. It is explained in places in the article but reasons varied from ship to ship and period to period. Dabbler (talk) 14:19, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Conflation of race-built and razee

A ship is a razee if it was initially taller but was later cut down to size. A race-built ship may have been a razee conversion of an older ship, but was more often designed and built that way in the first place: the design was "cut down", not the ship itself.

Therefore, this article is a WP:COATRACK: An article that mixes up two different subjects that should have separate articles. -Arch dude (talk) 06:11, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

I just look at all of the race-built ships mentioned in the article. None of them was a razee. All were designed and launched as race-built ships. -Arch dude (talk) 06:23, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

OK, I moved the race-built paragraph into its own article. -Arch dude (talk) 17:40, 12 March 2020 (UTC)