Talk:Stockholm (Ships)

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Shipwreck-related priority open tasks: Contents 1 To Do 2 Done 3 SS prefix 4 What is with the numbering in this article? [edit] To Do Shipwrecks Clean up typos Improve Grammer Add any additions if needed Discuss disired additions Cattewater Wreck Needs expansion [edit] Done Shipwrecks Re-wrote the first paragraph Cleaned up Types of Shipwrecks it felt a bit jumbled Cattewater Wreck Started the article

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Did You Know

that SS Stockholm which collided with SS Andrea Doria in one of history's most famous maritime disasters in 1956 today sails as a refurbished cruise ship, the M.S. Valtur Prima? suggested image :Image:Stockholm heads to NY.jpg

[edit] SS prefix

The information is a little wrong the name is not SS Stockholm but MS Stockholm. --Dahlis 14:19, 2005 August 27 (UTC)

Can you cite a source on this please? Thanks. Pentawing 17:50, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

This is what i could find http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/7894/stock.html The Stockholm built 1948 at götaverken was the one that sunk the Andrea Doria. There has however been a SS Stockholm aswell. --Dahlis 14:07, 2005 August 29 (UTC)

Thanks for the reference, though someone mentioned on the SS Andrea Doria's talk page that the prefix should be SS since it is common usage. Pentawing 21:40, August 29, 2005 (UTC)

It is MS Andrea Doria aswell since SS stands for steam ship it is wrong in both articles and it needs to be changed. --Dahlis 22:07, 2005 August 29 (UTC)

At the moment, the prefix will remain as SS on the Andrea Doria article. I looked through Google and so far MS Andrea Doria (which is mentioned predominantly on Dutch and German websites) hasn't been mentioned much compared to SS Andrea Doria (even a survivor's website used the SS prefix). The question now becomes whether we use the American SS prefix (which seems to be the preferred way), or the prefix which you say is the correct one. Pentawing 22:36, August 29, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] What is with the numbering in this article?

Four ships are described. But the third one is said to be "the second Stockholm," and then it is further described as "markedly similar to the second Stockholm." ??? I can think of a couple of ways of clarifying things based on just the information in the article, but I prefer to wait for comments on here before doing anything, since there may be conventions I'm not aware of. Thanks. --Tkynerd 14:53, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Another point about the SS Stockholm (II) is that the article says she was "launched," but that she burned while under construction. If her construction was never finished, she could never have been launched. Does "launched" refer to when her keel was laid, and if so, does that apply to the other ships as well? --Tkynerd 01:36, 6 October 2006 (UTC)