Talk:Keith Foulger
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![]() | A fact from Keith Foulger appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 August 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
edit- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Kingsif (talk) 19:18, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
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- ... that Keith Foulger worked on Britain's first nuclear submarine (pictured) and the 18th-century ship-of-the-line HMS Victory? "His important task was to ensure that the aft end of Britain’s first nuclear submarine, Dreadnought, which was identical to the USS Skipjack and housed the American S5W reactor, would fit the British-designed fore end ... For 10 years after his formal retirement, Foulger was chief naval architect on HMS Victory, overseeing her restoration and repair" from: "Keith Foulger, naval constructor who worked on the UK's nuclear submarine fleet – obituary". The Telegraph. 28 June 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
- ALT1:... that part of Keith Foulger's job was to make sure the front and back ends of Britain's first nuclear submarine (pictured) fitted together? Source:as above
Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 16:18, 29 July 2021 (UTC).
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Overall: Picture's not the best. I would have used the one of HMS Victory Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:51, 1 August 2021 (UTC)