Talk:Balclutha (1886)

message: The photo currently showing on 1/25/06 is of Balclutha, New Zealand and not the ship Balclutha.  I'd suggest pulling the photo from http://www.nps.gov/safr/local/balc.html
:Cute. I already have a Balclutha pic on commons of the same name, now being masked by this one, maybe I'll just upload mine under a longer name. Stan 21:33, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
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message: I have removed the following statement from the article lede:
:Clutha is the Gaelic word for the Clyde River near Glasgow, Scotland and  Balclutha is the town on the Clyde which is Glasgow, where the ship was constructed.
as this sentence says nothing useful about the subject of this article (a ship). All it says could be true, and the ship could still have been named after the owner's wife's mother's cat. If somebody has a source that the ship was actually named after a town on the Clyde, then that should be stated explicitly and the source referenced. All else is speculation, and does not belong here. -- Chris j wood 15:41, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Even the speculation is rather dubious. The are many towns on the River Clyde, including Dunbarton which was the home of the ships first owner. As it is usually the owner that names a ship, it is equally likely the reference is to Dumbarton rather than Glasgow. Alternatively it could be more mundanely named after Balclutha, New Zealand, as that country was one of the places the ship was built to trade with. It could have a play on all three facts. Unless there is a source somewhere, who knows. -- Waterstones 15:52, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irrelevant discussion on Gaelic naming of places in Scotland 

message: I would think the reason for the "Star of Alaska" having 200 crew instead of the 26 for the "Balclutha" would be of great interest.  Does anyone know and willing to add that?  Thanks.
* 26 crew members is normal for a vessel of this size.  The figure of 200 includeds fishermen and cannery workers travelling to Alaska who would not be involved in the day to day crewing of the ship.  Boatman (talk) 13:51, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crew Size 

message: The following coordinate fixes are needed for Balclutha (1886). Wow, these coordinates were way off. The marker should be at 37°48'35.36"N 122°25'21.05"W. What happened? o_o 
—76.105.145.143 (talk) 19:25, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: . Deor (talk) 23:01, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinate error 

message: Article says: " In 1911 the poop deck was extended to the main mast..." What the *beep* is a POOP DECK? 93.219.137.51 (talk) 18:25, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is a poop deck? 

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