Talk:Battle of Sinop

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Contents 1 Guns 2 Order of battle 3 Deletion 4 Is it a Battle or just a Bust 5 "Massacre" of Sinop? 6 Battleship or Ship of the Line 7 St. Andrew

[edit] Guns

The description of Velikiy Knyaz Konstantin as having 120 guns conflicts strongly with the page it is linked to. Could they be two different ships of the same name? Kd5mdk 20:05, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

yes of course. I'm not sure how to distinguish in terms of page names... perhaps just put the launch date on each? there seems to be several different styles on wikipedia for doing this.

[edit] Order of battle

I think Sinop order of battle should be merged here. Thoughts? --AW 22:24, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

agreed, it's not like this article is overburdened with content Modest Genius ^talk 23:57, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, if the Order of Battle is added at the end. Cosal 11:20, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

I support the merge. The order of battle for an article should nnot h ave a seperate page but it should be part of the article of the battle. Kyriakos 21:43, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I HAVE MAKE IT STUPID... Just kidding, I merged it. Puddytang 03:44, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion

Someone deleted a comment about the British ambassador only sending frigates to Sinope possibly in the hope that the Russians would attack Turkey. It's true that there had been some minor fighting before this battle, but nothing that would really "justify" intervention by Britain and France until this battle. So I think it's still a possibility? SpookyMulder (talk) 04:29, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Is it a Battle or just a Bust

someone should revise the article, because it contains some funny things like "battle with non-moved turkish ships"? damn, its not a batle. its typical bust--Orkh (talk) 16:57, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Massacre" of Sinop?

I'm listening now to a history course by prof. Robert I. Wiener. He says that the Battle was called "the massacre of Sinop" by English press and a propaganda campaing was unleashed to make a pretext for invasion into Crimea. Would be interesting to find sources and add this information. --CopperKettle (talk) 11:42, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

See that Google search brought: "Massacre of Sinope" --CopperKettle (talk) 12:57, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Battleship or Ship of the Line

I'm not sure that the use of the word battleship to describe some of the Russian ships is the best description. Although it may be technically acurate the word is most often used in association with post Dreadnought ships and that is the umage it conjures up. Ship of the line seems much more appropriate and acurate to me. IanOfNorwich (talk) 11:43, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Changed --AW (talk) 14:36, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] St. Andrew

It's probably significant that the attack was launched on St. Andrew's Day - can anyone confirm this? Drutt (talk) 15:57, 11 February 2009 (UTC)