Talk:HMS York (1796)

Clarification of fact needed

On the HMS York page it says: "She served in the Navy for eight years before foundering on Bell Rock in the North Sea in 1804." but this page says "she and her crew were never seen again, sunk as the result of an unknown calamity of fire or water." Can someone check and update? TIA --mervyn 10:29, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Following source of Grocott, have now amended HMS York page to read "disappeared without trace" NOT "foundering on Bell Rock".--mervyn 15:33, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

How very odd. She did strike the Bell Rock and sink in a storm in January 1804, with the loss of her entire crew. This was the impetus for the building of the Bell Rock lighthouse three years later. That she struck the Bell Rock is recorded in Colledge, and is now part of this article, and the HMS York disambiguation page. Benea (talk) 19:07, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned references in HMS York (1796)

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of HMS York (1796)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Winfield":

• From Hugh Pigot (Royal Navy captain): Winfield pp. 208–209.
• From HMS Hermione (1782): Winfield (2007), pp.208–9.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 09:31, 13 December 2014 (UTC)