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1 WikiGnome To-Do-List
- 1.1 Me
2 Battleships Texas and Alabama
- 2.1 Texas Copyedit Suggestions
  - 2.1.1 USS Texas (BB-35)
3 Featured Topic Checklists
- 3.1 Battleships
- 3.2 Aircraft Carriers
4 Experimentation Space

[edit] WikiGnome To-Do-List

Town class destroyer, Fletcher class destroyer, Clemson class destroyer, Wickes class destroyer
List of electronic music genres
Create the John Maxtone-Graham article.
Expand all South Dakota class battleship (1939) articles to a level comparable with Iowa class battleship articles.
USS Texas (BB-35) A-class review and FAC
Bibliography of maritime warfare library: User:MBK004/Library
Finish recommendations from USS Illinois (BB-65) FAC that are incomplete.
Expand New York-class and USS New York (BB-34) via collaboration with TomStar81 (talk · contribs) similar to USS Texas (BB-35)
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[edit] Battleships Texas and Alabama

[edit] Texas Copyedit Suggestions

I gave a pretty thorough copyediting pass to USS Texas (BB-35). I have some thoughts, observations, and questions.

Note #13 "BATTLESHIP TEXAS (BB-35)" is a dead link. From the web address, I would surmise that it might not have been considered an RS for eventual FA consideration, but it is the cite for several items in the D-Day sections. #26 "The Sand Pebbles" link might be rejected as a non-RS, also.
~~In note #12, the phrase "German Luftwaffe" is redundant (arguably, at least).~~
In the last paragraph of the "World War I" section, is the 40-mile figure nautical miles, as one would expect? The hard-coded conversion previously in the text treated it as statute miles, so I left it as that.
In the "Rehearsal" section and the "D-Day" sections there are two somewhat overlapping lists of ships. I wasn't clear if they were two distinct units with overlapping and/or changing membership (heat-of-battle type shifts) or descriptions of the same unit from, perhaps, two different sources.
Also, in the 2nd paragraph of the "D-Day" section, it seems like a similar situation about targets on Omaha beach. Like maybe the same actions are described, again, perhaps, from two different sources.
doncram (talk · contribs), at my invitation, added the National Historic Landmark (NHL) information to the article. The NHL infobox he added is somewhat compatible with the ship infobox, so depending on how you want to go with it, it could be incorporated into the ship box, as well.
For A-class and FAC, the lead section for the article should probably be expanded to four paragraphs. I might structure it as follows: the first paragraph could be fleshed out with some info on builder (who, where, when); a second paragraph to summarize up through WWI; a third for Interwar and WWII; and then keep the current final paragraph as the fourth and final paragraph of a new lead.
~~I linked to a couple of men mentioned in the article, each of whom later had a USN ship named for them (Grant and McDonnell), even though both are redlinked now.~~
I'm not sure of the significance of the "by hull number" in the last sentence. Is Texas merely the lowest numbered battleship that was made a museum ship, or was she the first (and coincidentally the lowest numbered) made a museum ship. If the former, I honestly don't think thats all that significant; if it's the latter—as seems to be currently indicated in the lead—it need to be reworded for clarity.
Unless you have deep-seated reasons for retaining the current reference setup at the end of the article, it would certainly make for a cleaner notes section if the full details of books were listed in a "Reference" section with a citation of something along the lines of "Smith, p. 25." in a "Notes" section. (See USS Siboney (ID-2999), for example, of one way of doing that.)

Any questions – or complaints ;) – just let me know... — Bellhalla (talk) 02:27, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

By the way, I'll leave it to you to strike – or not ;) – from Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Logistics — Bellhalla (talk) 02:50, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

I am sure that I can help you with some of these issues. I'll be back on in a few hours, right now I need a nap (18-hour days are exhausting :) TomStar81 (Talk) 20:54, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

I located the missing cite #13, it can still be accessed through the internet archive. Here is the working link, you can check the info out if you want or simply readd it to the article. The rest I will look more conclusively into tomorrow, time permitting. TomStar81 (Talk) 07:16, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

I added the archive link to the ref, and after poking around the archived site, it would qualify as an RS (for me, at least). — Bellhalla (talk) 10:37, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

I'll be done with school by then, and hopefully will be back in full force (assuming I don't die first). TomStar81 (Talk) 08:03, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Having officially nominated the Montana class for GA status I have finished my current project, so I am starting on this checklist next. I added a copy to my sandbox a couple of days ago, and will be crossing off items there as they are dealt with. Thought you might like to know :) TomStar81 (Talk) 22:20, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Yep, A-class will follow for the Montana's just as soon as GA-class is cleared. Also, above copy of the list in my sandbox has more items crossed off at the moment; you may want to check to see if you concur with the items I've crossed off and update the list accordingly. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:20, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] USS Texas (BB-35)

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The New York Class Battleships (New York & Texas) were literally built around the newest and largest in naval guns. Their massive 10 gun broadsides were the most powerful in the world. Each two gun turret weighed 532 tons. All operational functions, except for the manual breech, were driven by electrical motors; remarkable for a 1911 design. Turret training speed was 100 degrees per minute in an arc of 300 degrees (turret #3 @ 135 degrees P&S). Gun elevation range was -5 degrees to 15 degrees at 4 degrees per second.^[2]
Texas and New York were the only battleships to store and hoist their 14in ammunition in an inverted, nose down position, in cast iron cups.^[2]

Desiring to continue the process of strengthening the armament of each succeeding class of battleships without resorting to a seventh twin 12" turret, BuShips was faced with the option of selecting triple turrets or a larger caliber main armament. Convinced by the Royal Navy's decision to mount 13.5" guns in their Orion class laid down in 1909, they opted for the latter, choosing to arm the New Yorks with fewer (10 in five twin turrets), larger (14"/45) guns.^[3]
A 1926-27 rebuild did the following:
- A smaller number of oil-fired boilers replaced the old coal-burners, allowing a reduction from two funnels to one^[3]
- Similarly, six of the casemented 5"/51s were moved up a deck to make room for a torpedo bulge^[3]
- A tall tripod foremast and short tower mast replaced the two cage masts.^[3]
- A short tripod mainmast was added between Q and X turrets.^[3]

^ ^a ^b Holland, Tim (Director). (2001-06-21). Battleship Texas: The Lone Star Ship [Documentary]. Triumvirate Pictures. Retrieved on 2008-01-11.
^ ^a ^b Wiper, Steve; Flowers, Tom [1999] (2006). USS Texas BB-35, Warship Pictorial #4. Tucson, Arizona: Classic Warships Publishing. ISBN 0-9654829-3-6.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Stern, Robert C. [1980]. U.S. Battleships in action Part 1, illustrated by Greer, Warships #3, Carrollton, Texas: Squadron/Signal Publications. ISBN 0-89747-107-5.

[edit] Featured Topic Checklists

[edit] Battleships

[edit] Battleships at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor
Battleship Row
List of United States Navy ships present at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

This is a list and instead of Featured Article will need to be brought up to Featured List instead.

USS Utah (BB-31)
USS Nevada (BB-36)
USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38)
USS Arizona (BB-39)
USS Tennessee (BB-43)
USS California (BB-44)
USS Maryland (BB-46)
USS West Virginia (BB-48)

[edit] Aircraft Carriers

[edit] Lexington class aircraft carrier

Lexington-class aircraft carrier
USS Lexington (CV-2)
USS Saratoga (CV-3)

[edit] Yorktown class aircraft carrier

Yorktown-class aircraft carrier
USS Yorktown (CV-5)
USS Enterprise (CV-6)
USS Hornet (CV-8)

[edit] Essex class aircraft carrier

Essex-class aircraft carrier
USS Essex (CV-9)
USS Yorktown (CV-10)
USS Intrepid (CV-11)
USS Hornet (CV-12)
USS Franklin (CV-13)
USS Ticonderoga (CV-14)
USS Randolph (CV-15)
USS Lexington (CV-16)
USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)
USS Wasp (CV-18)
USS Hancock (CV-19)
USS Bennington (CV-20)
USS Boxer (CV-21)
USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31)
USS Leyte (CV-32)
USS Kearsarge (CV-33)
USS Oriskany (CV-34)
USS Reprisal (CV-35)
USS Antietam (CV-36)
USS Princeton (CV-37)
USS Shangri-La (CV-38)
USS Lake Champlain (CV-39)
USS Tarawa (CV-40)
USS Valley Forge (CV-45)
USS Iwo Jima (CV-46)
USS Philippine Sea (CV-47)

[edit] Midway class aircraft carrier

Midway-class aircraft carrier
USS Midway (CV-41)
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42)
USS Coral Sea (CV-43)

[edit] Forrestal class aircraft carrier

Forrestal-class aircraft carrier
USS Forrestal (CV-59)
USS Saratoga (CV-60)
USS Ranger (CV-61)
USS Independence (CV-62)

[edit] Kitty Hawk class aircraft carrier

Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
USS Constellation (CV-64)
USS America (CV-66)
USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)

[edit] Nimitz class aircraft carrier

Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
USS George Washington (CVN-73)
USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74)
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)
USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77)

[edit] Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carrier

Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)
CVN-79
CVN-80

[edit] United States Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carriers

USS Enterprise (CVN-65)
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
USS George Washington (CVN-73)
USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74)
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)
USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77)
Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)
CVN-79
CVN-80

[edit] Unique USN aircraft carriers

USS Langley (CV-1)
USS Ranger (CV-4)
USS Wasp (CV-7)
USS United States (CVA-58)
USS Enterprise (CVN-65)

[edit] Experimentation Space

MBK004
Sexuality	Lesbian
Birth date	May 16, 1988 (1988-05-16) (age 20)
Birthplace	Houston, Texas
Location	Klein, Texas
Occupation	Undergraduate Student
University	Sam Houston State University
High school	Klein High School
Politics	Independent

MBK004
Born	May 16, 1988 (1988-05-16) (age 20) Houston, Texas
Residence	Klein, Texas
Nationality	Texan / American
Education	Sam Houston State University (2006-present) Klein High School (2002-2006)
Occupation	Undergraduate student
Home town	Klein, Texas
Title	Eagle Scout with Bronze Palm
Political party	Independent

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Contents

[edit] WikiGnome To-Do-List

[edit] Me

[edit] Battleships Texas and Alabama

[edit] Texas Copyedit Suggestions

[edit] USS Texas (BB-35)

[edit] Featured Topic Checklists

[edit] Battleships

[edit] Battleships at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941

[edit] Wyoming class battleship

[edit] New York class battleship

[edit] Nevada class battleship

[edit] Pennsylvania class battleship

[edit] New Mexico class battleship

[edit] Tennessee class battleship

[edit] Colorado class battleship

[edit] South Dakota class battleship (1920)

[edit] North Carolina class battleship

[edit] South Dakota class battleship (1939)

[edit] Iowa class battleship

[edit] Montana class battleship