Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Burning of the USS Missouri

Burning of the USS Missouri

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Original – The USS Missouri was one of the first U.S. Navy steam ships. It travelled across the ocean to Gibraltar... at which point an engineer accidentally broke a container of turpentine, it caught alight, and, well...

Reason

A fine, semi-official illustration which recounts the last hours of the ship. Dramatic, and has been stable in the article for five years.

Articles in which this image appears

USS Missouri (1841), John T. Newton, George Pechell Mends, List of shipwrecks in August 1843

FP category for this image

WP:Featured pictures/History/USA History

Creator

Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton's lithograph of Edward Duncan's artwork based on George Pechell Mends' sketch. Restoration by Adam Cuerden

• Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8% of all FPs} 22:51, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
• Support. MER-C 12:22, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
• Support – Bammesk (talk) 15:30, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
• Support TheFreeWorld (talk) 08:01, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
• @MER-C, Bammesk, and TheFreeWorld: Just to note, I made a small colour tweak. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8% of all FPs} 08:04, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
• Support – Yann (talk) 20:04, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
• Support Dramatic and likely a pretty accurate depiction on this event. Nick-D (talk) 11:12, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

Promoted File:The Burning of the USS Missouri in Gibraltar.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:02, 10 August 2022 (UTC)