Talk:French frigate Méduse (1810)

message: This entry should begin with Gericault's famous painting "The Raft of the 'Medusa'" and then tell the story. It's even his title. Wetman 04:50, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

message: If the wreck of the Medusa is a scandal (the Captain leaving the sinking ship first) another wreck shows the better side of Chivaly.
In about 1850, a British troop ship hit rocks and started to sink. Women and children were loaded onto the inadequate number of lifeboats, while the troops were ordered to stand in line on the deck of the ship, since any attempt by them to struggle onto the lifeboats might sink them in turn.  Only two troopers broke ranks.
Heroics rather than a scandal.
:See here: HMS Birkenhead.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.112.217.14 (talk) 15:56, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Women and Children First 

message: Is there a reason why this article isn't in the most obvious location, Méduse? If there's no naming convention that forces the format "<country> <ship type> <name> (<year>)", the article should probably be moved. Jafeluv (talk) 10:59, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Disregard that. I found Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ships), which suggests French frigate Méduse. Disambiguation by year is not needed since there's no other article with that name. If there's no objections, I'm going to move the page in a couple of days. Jafeluv (talk) 11:20, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There was at least one other frigate named Méduse during the age of sail (launched in 1782, burnt by accident in 1797) and as far as I can tell, at least one more from the age of steam. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ships) calls for the pre-emptive disambiguation of these ships, and if necessary the redirection of the undisambiguated title to the existing article rather than the moving of the article to the undisambiguated title. Hence French frigate Méduse would ideally redirect to French ship Méduse, which will be a set index page listing all French Navy vessels with the name Méduse. From this page there will be links to French frigate Méduse (1782), French frigate Méduse (1810), 'French frigate Méduse (1856)', 'French destroyer Méduse (1901)', 'French destroyer Méduse (1916)' (for example), etc. An example of this approach can be seen at French ship Formidable. Benea (talk) 15:42, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: So, is somebody actually going to do this?  An otheruses with a redlink is retarded... --72.226.206.86 (talk) 15:52, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

text: I've redirected French frigate Méduse and French ship Méduse to this page (and Méduse to Medusa) for now. An index page will be needed when someone creates an article about another ship called Méduse. Jafeluv (talk) 17:03, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name 

message: The text appears to be contradictory, or is at least very unclear. It states that "Seventeen men decided to stay on the Méduse, and the rest boarded the ship's longboats." Then it says that the longboats sailed away; the reader must assume that they left seventeen men on the raft. However, it's stated later that "Rations dwindled rapidly; by the fourth day there were only 67 left alive on the raft".  Can anyone clarify? garik (talk) 15:24, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many men were on the raft? 

message: The lead uses the word émigré. I think that in this context, it refers to those aristocrats who fled France after the Revolution, and returned after the Restoration. But it needs explanation. Maproom (talk) 07:20, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I've dealt with this, by wikilinking to the relevant section of the émigré article. Maproom (talk) 17:45, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Émigré 

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message: There is an illustration with the title "Line-crossing ceremony aboard Méduse on 1 July 1816".  However, such ceremonies commemorate crossing the equator (according to Wiki) and the Méduse wouldn't have got that far South if it sank off Mauitania. Can someone clarify or correct? BobBadg (talk) 11:39, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Line Crossing Ceremony illustration