Talk:La Melpomène-class torpedo boat

Dubious

The various histories in the Ship section don't match the histories in Conway, which (I would have thought) would be a reliable source for this subject. Does anyone know where the information here came from? Xyl 54 (talk) 23:42, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

I'm no expert in this at all, and don't have Conway to compare, but they are very different to Bruno Nicolas' Dictionnaire de la Flotte de Guerre Française de 1671 à nos Jours (though that certainly contains some errors). For example, Nicolas has:

• LA POMONE > FR 42 > TA10 > lost 17/1/1944 (built At & Ch de La Loire)
• L'IPHIGÉNIE > FR43 > TA11 > lost 10/9/1943
• LA BAYONNAISE > FR44 > TA13 > scuttled Toulon 25/8/1944
• BOMBARDE > FR41 > TA9 > lost 23/8/1944
• LA POUSUIVANTE > (no Italian name given) not returned to service
• BALISTE > FR45 > TA12 > sunk 24/11/1943 "(or destroyed in Egyptian Sea 22/8/1943?)"
• none of them recorded being captured at Oran. Davidships (talk) 11:42, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

That pretty much agrees with what's in Conway (there's a scan of the page in the external links [1]) and, as it turns out, with the information in the other three websites linked as references. So I've re-written the ship histories to reflect the sources. I don't know where the information here came from; some of it was just fanciful. Anyway, thanks for checking; Xyl 54 (talk) 00:21, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

That's good. Seeing the Conway extract, I think that you can with confidence correct the builder for LA POMONE. It was probably a confusion with the previous POMONE, the steam frigate of 1842, which was indeed built at the Arsenal de Lorient. Davidships (talk) 12:21, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Move

This page was moved recently, and the ship names edited, to remove the definite article from La Melpomène and several of the others. I have reverted this, as there was no justification for it. All the sources on the page (and I have now added some more) list these vessels (or 8 of the 12 anyway) as having names with the definite article. If anyone has a source that says differently, I suggest they bring it here, as it may warrant a footnote informing of the difference; but the weight of evidence is for the page to stay as it was originally written. Xyl 54 (talk) 23:44, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

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Commissioned ?

Commission dates in 1936 are not consistent with the French Wikipedia information... --Wisdood (talk) 11:26, 4 July 2019 (UTC)