Template:Did you know nominations/Augusta Victoria (ship)
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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:19, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Augusta Victoria (ship)
[edit]- ... that the Augusta Victoria broke a speed record on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic?
Created/expanded by Yngvadottir (talk). Self nom at 16:16, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
- ALT1 ... that Augusta Victoria was the first twin-screw ocean liner built in Europe?
- ALT2 ... that the first commercial pleasure cruise is often said to have been on Augusta Victoria, in 1891?
- ALT3 ... that Augusta Victoria was launched with an incorrect spelling of the German Empress' name? - I'd rather not use this one, but it's so obvious it has to be mentioned. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:29, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
- I've now done my quid pro quo review: Le Dernier Homme, diff. Yngvadottir (talk) 18:51, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Dates and lengths all good. My German is not strong enough to fully verify the original hook and sources for all ALT looks are offline, so AGF of sourcing. --Allen3 talk 13:52, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks! I've added Google snippet view links for the Gibbs refs, but of course there's very little visible. And his statement on the speed record is a bit peculiar: "easily broke the Channel record on her maiden voyage." I'm not sure what he means by that - I'm not aware of any separate timing of transit of the English Channel, and everybody else who makes this claim claims it was for the Atlantic crossing. So I kept it to the vague "speed record". But if you can see the Google snippets, you can at least see him saying the ship's name was misspelt. Unfortunately Ramsay's book, which has a survey of the cutthroat competition in transatlantic shipping up to the time the Lusitania entered the picture and was what piqued my interest about this ship, appears to be unviewable. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:22, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
