Talk:HMS Biter (P270)

This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Military history: Maritime / British / European This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.Military historyWikipedia:WikiProject Military historyTemplate:WikiProject Military historymilitary history articles This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-class status: Referencing and citation: criterion not met Coverage and accuracy: criterion not met Structure: criterion met Grammar and style: criterion met Supporting materials: criterion met Associated task forces: /  Maritime warfare task force British military history task force European military history task force Ships This article is within the scope of WikiProject Ships, a project to improve all Ship-related articles. If you would like to help improve this and other articles, please join the project, or contribute to the project discussion. All interested editors are welcome. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.ShipsWikipedia:WikiProject ShipsTemplate:WikiProject ShipsShips articles

Confused about the badge shown in the specs column. A close up of the photo of the ship shows a badge which features a winged fish. I have a photo of Biter and her sister ship Charger from last September in Whitehaven harbour both with the same badge. The shark biting a trident is shown only as a silhouette on the funnel.Yan Marra (talk) 18:23, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File:HMS Biter crest.jpg is the correct ship's crest of Biter. I think the crest you are talking about is the crest of 1PBS (First Patrol Boat Squadron]] of which Biter is a part. File:HMS Biter (P270) in Tobermory in April 2009 (2).jpg shows this crest underneath the shark on the funnel. Is that the one you are thinking of? Woody (talk) 19:24, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that - Yes that might be the answer and goes some way to clearing up my query - both Charger and Biter have that crest on the blue background and the crown on top displayed on the funnel with the silhouette of the shark painted above for Biter and the Liverbird motif for charger because of its affiliation with Liverpool University. Has the First Patrol Boat Squadron crest superceded the individual crest or is this still used elsewhere? I only queried it because for identification puposes when I looked up Biter and found a different crest I had to go back and check that I had correctly identified the vessel for my photo on Flickr. Yan Marra (talk) 09:36, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The only true way of identifying ships is through the Pennant number so P270 is most definitely Biter. In terms of the crest, it hasn't superceded it no, Biter's crest is still used for official things on and off the ship. 1PBS is on the funnels of all the ships of the squadron along with the more informal mascots of the ships. (liver-bird, shark etc). Woody (talk) 10:09, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

On another note, have you considered adding the image to Wikimedia Commons? That way, it can be used to illustrate this article and other articles such as Archer Class patrol vessels. Woody (talk) 10:22, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on HMS Biter (P270). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110611061445/http://www.navynews.co.uk/news/451-north-west-passage-for-ledbury-charger-and-biter.aspx to http://www.navynews.co.uk/news/451-north-west-passage-for-ledbury-charger-and-biter.aspx

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018.

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 09:28, 27 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]