Talk:SMS Yorck

The loss of the SMS Yorck

During the night of November 3, 1914, the vessels returning from the Yarmouth raid encountered dense fog and all the ships were ordered by Admiral Ingenohl to anchor overnight in Schillig roads. By dawn, the fog was still so dense that the ships could not see each other. The Yorck received permission to proceed to Wilhelmshaven in order to affect repairs to her fresh water tanks.

The Yorck had to proceed through a gap between the double row of mines at the southern end of Schillig roads. The Yorck lost her way in the impenetrable mist an encountered a shift in the current which took her to the wrong side of an anchored mine sweeper marking the channel. With in two minutes, she struck two mines and immediately capsized with the loss of 235 men.

Source: "Castles of Steel" by Robert K. Massie, copyright 2003, Random House, New York, pp. 312 - 313. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.172.172.45 (talk) 15:33, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Massie is wrong, as he sometimes is. The Yorck did not actively participate in the bombardment of Yarmouth, and hence could not have been returning from it; the ship was stationed in the Jade, ready to render support if needed. The ship left without authorization, and through navigation errors, ran into a German minefield off Wilhelmshaven. As a result, the captain of Yorck was later court-martialled and convicted of "disobedience of orders and negligence" and "homicide through negligence", and given a 2-year prison term. Parsecboy (talk) 17:19, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

GA Review

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Reviewer: Thurgate (talk) 22:54, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

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Comments

1.She struck two German mines and capsized and sank with the loss of heavy loss of life. Needs to be re-written as it doesn't flow. Suggest, She struck two German mines and capsized and sank with a heavy loss of life.

Fixed - I rewrote half of the sentence and forgot to make sure it matched the first half. Parsecboy (talk) 12:07, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

2. Citation twelve's date is in the wrong place.

Nope, it's right. I added the {{cite news}} and it kept it in the same order. Parsecboy (talk) 12:07, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

3. She was laid down in 1903 at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, and finished in November 1905, at the cost of 16,241,000 Marks. She displaced up to 9,875 tonnes (9,719 LT; 10,885 ST) and was armed with a main battery of four 21 cm (8.3 in) guns. Her top speed was 20.4 kn (37.8 km/h; 23.5 mph). Suggest moving this to Construction under a sub-heading of General characteristics.

The lead section should summarize the entire article per WP:LEAD, and since there is a section with technical information, there should be at least a sentence on the main technical info (size, speed, guns) in the intro. Parsecboy (talk) 12:07, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

My mistake, I just haven't seen the lead section with so much technical detail before.

No worries, not everyone writes articles the same exact way, so there is a bit of flexibility. Parsecboy (talk) 17:53, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

I've put the article on hold for seven days to allow you to address the issues I've brought up. Feel free to contact me on my talk page, or here with any concerns. Thurgate (talk) 00:03, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing the article, Thurgate. Parsecboy (talk) 12:07, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

• Passed Thurgate (talk) 17:51, 2 February 2011 (UTC)