Talk:Cedric Naylor
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Dumelow in topic Very different dates for U-110's sinking in this article and the SM U-110 article
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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 22:30, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
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- ... that on Christmas Eve 1917 Lieutenant Cedric Naylor and some of his crew remained aboard their sinking ship so they could fire upon the submarine that torpedoed it? "On the 24 Decembe, 1917, PENSHURST was approaching the southern end of the Irish Sea, aiming to intercept a U-Boat operating off the Smalls. ten minutes after midday, she sighted a U-Boat 2 points off the port bow ... 1.31pm saw a German torpedo attack from 300 yards away ... the usual act of abandoning a merchant ship occurred, with the panic party getting into the last lifeboat and lift rafts ... Having settled by the stern, the stern gun could not be depressed enough to open fire on the submarine. Nonetheless, the gun crew took advantage of the pitching and rolling of the ship to fire six rounds on the enemy. The second round hit the submarine foreward on the starboard side of the deck, the forth hitting abaft of the conning tower ... PENSHURST sank at 8:05 pm. The crew were taken off" from: "U-boat encounter on Christmas Eve results in sinking of Q-ship Penshurst". Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 19:17, 8 April 2021 (UTC).
Just within the 7 days from creation to nomination! Copy vio is fine., QPQ done, long enough, interesting, inline citations in each paragraph of main text. Quetzal1964 (talk) 08:51, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
This article claims that U-110, the U-boat which sanks Naylor's Q-ship Penshurst, "was probably sunk by a British patrol boat the following day" (meaning 25 December 1917, the day after she sank Penshurst), citing Chatterton's 1922 book on Q-ships. But the SM U-110 article claims that U-110 was not sunk until 15 March 1918, citing a 1997 book by Paul Kemp, but without a page number. Obviously one of these is wrong. I'm inclined to believe the more definite report from a much more recent source, but its citation is poor. Could somebody clear this up? --Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 00:30, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks Colin Douglas Howell, I managed to find a snippet of the right page from Kemp on Google Books. I've amended the article to clarify this - Dumelow (talk) 09:58, 3 May 2021 (UTC)