Talk:USS Princeton disaster of 1844
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Pictures
[edit]I have seen a picture of this disaster on Wikipedia. Is it possible to add this?
Name
[edit]Is this name appropriate?
- I think it should be renamed the "Sinking of USS Princeton".--$1LENCE D00600D (talk) 23:51, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
- The ship didn't sink. —Mrwojo (talk) 00:56, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
- I think it should be renamed the "Sinking of USS Princeton".--$1LENCE D00600D (talk) 23:51, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Merge
[edit]This is not the proper place to discuss the merger. I will move the comment that was written here to the correct location here. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 02:19, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
John Ericsson
[edit]There is no mention of John Ericsson on this page. That is an oversight. Much of the ship's design was his; the flawed gun is not, the other gun was his design. AS a result of this Disaster Ericsson - and Stockton's effort - blame was falsely placed on him, yet nearly 20 years later he designed and oversaw the construction of another very highly innovative ship, and more famous- USS Monitor. --Wfoj2 (talk) 23:58, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Succession Reference
[edit]In the impact section, it referred to the possible succession of the Speaker of the House (John Winston Jones). In fact, at the time, the succession order of the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker was reversed from what it is today (see Presidential Succession Act), so Willie Person Mangum was next in line, the article has been updated to reflect this. Drunaii (talk) 00:32, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
There was also no indication of why Tyler's vice president would not have succeeded him (he had none), and I corrected this by noting that Tyler himself succeeded when president Harrison died. RM2KX (talk) 04:42, 24 December 2016 (UTC)