Talk:MV Princess Victoria (1946)

message: Although this may be an indication of how social attitudes have changed since 1953, it was controversial at the time that there were no women or children among the survivors.  If you read "Death in the North Channel" then it was an appalling catalogue of errors. PatGallacher 14:45, 2005 July 21 (UTC)
:I agree, and further, see no reason why Wikipedia has to be ground down into bland language for fear of some supposed POV. --mervyn 16:00, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
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message: Congratulations to whoever got hold of the images for this article, I just have a couple of quibbles.  Firstly, is it good practice to have 2 images alonside each other, so that we have the text squeezed into a small area in the middle?  Secondly, I am not entirely happy with the photo of the ship, since it includes some blank space and text too small to read.  Could we crop this down to just the photo, and then include it in the article at whatever seems like the appropriate size? PatGallacher (talk) 17:51, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
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message: The Court of Enquiry section claims that the Court's report ran to 30,000 pages.  That cannot be right.  By comparison, the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary is "only" 22,000 pages and is estimated to contain 120 man-years' worth of typing. Dricherby (talk) 12:56, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Nine years later - a delayed response! I suggest the writer probably meant 30,000 words, or around 100 pages. Arrivisto (talk) 16:18, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Court of Enquiry 

message: The following section was added in 2011 and later added to, by . It was removed by  in 2014 and readded by DeslieM, in a slightly different form, in January 2016. I'm removing it again as unencyclopaedic, but preserving it here for consideration. Yngvadottir (talk) 04:58, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal testimonial 

message: I have some qualms about the claim to be the first British car ferry to operate in British waters, Her predecessor Ship MV Princess Victoria (1939) was built as a car ferry but within two months requisitioned and converted to the minelayer HMS Princess Victoria which was lost 1940.  This photograph seems to show her loading cars at Stranraer (but it may have a test or one off).  http://www.nrm.org.uk/ourcollection/photo?group=Euston&objid=1997-7409_LMS_8995.Wayback copy   There is currenly no article for the 1939 but I might to a quick stub article.Djm-leighpark (talk) 07:19, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  First British Car Ferry 

message: The current source (just recoverd from archive) for the number of lives lost says 133.  An attempt has been made to change that to 135.  Should anyone feel they have a source for number of lives different to 133 can they discuss it here so it can be resolved in the most appropriate way.  Thankyou.Djm-leighpark (talk) 04:45, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: This source does not give a precise number but indicates two further persons were identified in 2017 which is probably in addition to the 133 idenitified in the archive I previously recovered and mentioned above.  Probably this needs checking against other sources.  I am not able to put in the effort for this currently.  Thankyou,.Djm-leighpark (talk) 02:23, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of lives lost 

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