Talk:Turtle (submersible)

message: Technically, Turtle (submarine) is not of the USA. The United States had not been created at the time of the turtle. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 16:44, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not "American" 

message: In an article in Archaeology Magazine about the Turtle, it stated the screw propellors were anachronistic; the sketch is incorrect.  If the author could provide a citation for the use of those propellors, that'd be great; otherwise the reference should really be deleted.
Greyscale 03:36, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is interesting. About.com has a copy of the picture we are using here and a different picture with a different kind of propellor here See also this page which has pictures of both versions on the same page. Gzuckier 18:54, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Propellors

message: on CNN as of 12:46 eastern coast time there is a reactor with a working replica of the turtle being aressted Arrested on suspicion of terror  for the craft was near several cruise ships in New York harbor, more info as the story develops. Celt88 16:43, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Developing story

message: I don't know if I'm the only one who noticed this, but logically a "recreation" of the craft could not have been constructed BEFORE the Turtle's destruction. Suggest you check your facts or at least rephrase.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.114.17.33 (talk) 02:53, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replica's 

message: Is "spear sack" slang, or is it the proper name? I can find no reference to such a component on Wikipedia or the wider Internet - other than mirrors of this article. It would be useful if someone with more technical knowledge explains the principle to Luddites such as myself. Rje (talk) 03:18, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spear Sack? 

message: Since when is there any confusion with a DSV? I have never, ever, seen this craft called American Turtle. Neither do I see any risk of confusion with a much less well-known DSV (which page is titled DSV Turtle anyhow...). So what possible rationale could there have been to move the page? With no discussion?  TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura  06:41, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems to be a known name - but a far less common one. I've moved the page back, hatnoted it - which is how you disambiguate, not by moving a page - on the far better known vessel with the name, to boot - to a rare form of the name. If any move is to be done here it needs to be through the Requested Move process. - The Bushranger One ping only 13:28, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: When this move came to my attention, I did a bit of Google Book searching (not that this is definitive).  The usage "American Turtle" is more common than you might think, especially in modern historiography.  "American Turtle" (with quotes) yields over 3,800 hits, some of which have to do with the animal; adding "Bushnell" as a term reduces it to 1,700 and focuses the results. "Turtle" -American Bushnell yields 4,100.  A number of sources will initially refer to it as "American Turtle", with subsequent references as "Turtle". The results returned in the first few pages of these searches are pretty much all relevant.  Based on the sources I've seen (some of which were used here, of course), "Turtle" certainly seems to be more common. Magic♪piano 14:43, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: If it's become more common, I'll admit not reading anything on it in quite a few years, since I had no idea.  TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura  18:27, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Not happy together

message: This is unsourced and seems to be bouncing between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Westbrook, Connecticut.  It seems that both Bushnell and Turtle were in Saybrook at the time, but at a location that later became Westbrook.  
Can anyone clarify and source this? Just where is the boundary?  Is there a "Bushnell house" for which a location can be identified? Andy Dingley (talk) 16:11, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I've not seen any reliable source giving any sort of indication where she was built.  There are a number of places (houses, farms, etc) in the southern Connecticut River valley bearing the Bushnell name (I believe it's an old Connecticut family), but I've never seen any of those associated definitively with the inventor either.  There's a reason why the location assertion is tagged... Magic♪piano 18:04, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Building location? 

message: [I]t is believed... the Turtle was destroyed to prevent her from falling into enemy hands.
:Not sure how this qualifies as ‘Shipwrecks of the New York (state) coast’. Valetude (talk) 13:25, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category 

message: Aftermath section needs a serious citation/source update. it reads like propaganda and has no citations for multiple paragraphs 2600:6C47:A03F:C443:CCBB:3044:F145:712B (talk) 16:15, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  aftermath sources update