Talk:TSMS Lakonia

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Mmccalpin, you provided a citation in support of the statement that

• The ship was about 180 miles (290 km) north of Madeira.

But it is to a book, Marine Fire Prevention, Firefighting and Fire Safety at page 46, to which you obviously have access. What, exactly, does that book say the distance was? Is it like this one here, saying "180 miles (290 km)"? I doubt it.

I think this is still dubious, unless you can provide a quote from the book which either gives that distance in kilometers, else gives that distance in miles which are clearly identified, with no ambiguity. Can you do so?

And, if they are indeed

Thanks for clarifying your original edit. I was head-faked by the fact that a location 180 miles north of Madeira is just barely north of due west of Casablanca, not northwest stated in the previous text: I considered the possibility that somehow that error was part of your meaning. Only after your above explanation did I consider statute vs nautical miles... d'oh!

I have now edited out any mention of kilometers and have added a clarifying footnote that the available sources are unclear which mile being used. Also, I have added the URL from which I found the two citations. I had hoped to find a source with lat/long information to put the matter to rest, but alas, none have yet turned up.

In any case, thanks again for your eye for detail. Mmccalpin (talk) 16:22, 25 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for looking into it. I should have been clearer the first time around that I thought it was more likely they'd be nautical miles. Gene Nygaard (talk) 11:13, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's a routine navigational calculation (and

Pythagoras's theorem

with the figures for AC and BC gives the distance A-to-B.

Taking the stated position, and relating it to the Lat/Long for Funchal (capital of Madeira), gives a distance of 203 stat. miles / 176 n.m. / 327km, at a bearing of 028°(T), aka NNE-ish. In the article I've revised the Note, putting some of this detail in it (and using the statute-miles / kilometres figures in the main text, as being familiar to the general readership). 2A04:B2C2:405:EB00:C54F:9BF6:E166:B4A2 (talk) 17:21, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was refitted again in 1958 at a cost of A$800,000.

How can this be? The Australian dollar didn't exist before 1966. Was it A£400,000 (the dollar was introduced at 2 to the Australian Pound), or A£800,000 perhaps? -- Arwel Parry (talk) 18:09, 19 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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