Talk:Sultana (steamboat)/Archive 1

This seems to be two articles put together - perhaps the first part could be reduced to a brief summary with the second as is. Leonard G. 00:36, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

The latter half seems to be fairly colourful writing, not quite what you see in other Wikipedia articles.

Actually, it feels to me (obviously I don't know for certain) like it was just pulled from somewhere else.

I have removed the second part since it was very long and did indeed seem to be taken from a book. I didn't think the style was appropriate for an encyclopedia anyway. I left the first part intact as it is more of a concise summary of the event. L. Pistachio 20:59, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

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no acually this was very nice even the lastb bpart

Date of disaster

Excuse me? It exploded on April 28, not 27, according to the picture. Кéò

According to what picture? Every source I can find says 27 April.--chris.lawson 23:47, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea what the correct date is...but the caption on the picture of the Sultana in the article does say April 28!?!?

I have no idea what you're talking about. The article makes no mention whatsoever of 28 April, nor has it made any such mention in the last year (check the history).--chris.lawson 03:04, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No the article doesn't mention it...if you look at the top of the article, there is a picture of the Sultana on fire. Click that picture to enlarge it, you will see on the bottom of the picture that the date says April 28. I don't know who is right but I see what the original person was questioning. SkaTroma 03:54, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see. It appears that either Harper's got the caption wrong, or it's the 28 April issue of Harper's Weekly. I'm not sure if the latter is the case, as I don't know the day of the week Harper's was published at that time. 28 April 1865 was a Friday; a copy of Harper's I found from 1859 was published on a Saturday. My first comment above still stands, though; every single source I can find on Google that seems even halfway reliable says the explosion happened around 0200 on 27 April. I suspect Harper's got the caption wrong.--chris.lawson 04:30, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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This was not the Sultana page I was looking for but it didn't have a link back to the disambuation page like many other Wikipedia articles. Unfortunately, I don't know how to add one. It would be helpful for future users if someone could add the link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana in the correct manner.