User talk:Felix Stember

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[edit] Balao / Tench

Hi. You moved four submarines from the Balao-class ot the Tench-class templates. Checking, DANFS says Trumpetfish, Tusk, and Turbot are Balaos, while Ulua is a Tench. Navsource says the first two are Balaos and the second two are Tenches. Do you have a source that says they're all Tenches? Personally, I'm inclined to follow DANFS, unless there's good reason to think it's mistaken.
—wwoods 16:21, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

The four subs were categorized as tench class subs here in wikipedia before i corrected that template... --Felix Stember 16:56, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Then evidently wikipedia was wrong (shock! horror!) about two or three of them. Unless you've got a better primary source than DANFS?

—wwoods 18:54, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

I see. Okay, than we should correct these three articles... --Felix Stember 19:07, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Looking around, I found that globalsecurity.org lists all four as Tench, fleetsubmarine.com lists 425 and 426 as Tench, navysite.de lists 427 and 428 as Tench. Oy. I'll email the Naval Historical Center; maybe they know what's what.

—wwoods 19:31, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

So I did that. In the process of writing the email, it occurred to me that since submarines 417–424 (and 428–549) were all Tench class, it would be a bit odd if the Navy, having ordered the first batch of Tenches, ordered a last set of three(3) Balaos. Not impossible — maybe they had the hull plates left over from earlier construction, and nothing better to do with them. But I'm coming around to thinking that you were right, and DANFS is in error.

—wwoods 20:23, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

And what shall we do now? I already "corrected" the three articles and the templates according to that DANFS entry, so it seems that this was wrong. Shall i undo these edits or will you correct that articles? --Felix Stember 20:35, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

I doubt I'll hear back from the NHC till next week at the earliest. We might as well leave things as they are for now, unless some other authoritative information comes along.

—wwoods 20:42, 16 June 2007 (UTC)