Talk:B class destroyer (1913)

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[edit] Errors in dates now corrected in this article

Unfortunately a significant number of the dates quoted, taken from Maurice Cocker's book, were incorrect. WP practice is to identify British warships by the name followed (in brackets) by the date of acquisition, this date being the year of launch for vessels built specifically for the RN, or the year of purchase or capture for vessels acquired after being built. Inserting the correct launch date (replacing dates which purported to be completion dates, but which in several cases were neither launch nor completion dates) has certainly removed some links to individual ship articles, and so the dates which form part of the titles of some individual ship articles consequently need to be corrected. I have added David Lyon's book on "The First Destroyers" to the referenced sources for the articles on all the "turtle-backed" destroyers (A, B, C and D classes), as the dates in this are far more reliable and precise. Rif Winfield 06:35, 21 September 2007 (UTC)