Talk:Brazilian cruiser Almirante Barroso (1882)

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

Brazil Low‑importance

	Brazil portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Brazil, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Brazil and related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BrazilWikipedia:WikiProject BrazilTemplate:WikiProject BrazilBrazil articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Military history: Maritime / Asian / Indian / South America / South Asia

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 met Structure: criterion met Grammar and style: criterion met Supporting materials: criterion met

Associated task forces:
/
	Maritime warfare task force
	Asian military history task force
	Indian military history task force
	South American military history task force
	South Asian military history task force

A fact from Brazilian cruiser Almirante Barroso (1882) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 January 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Brazilian cruiser Almirante Barroso (pictured) was on a voyage to circumnavigate Earth with Prince August Leopold on board when the republic was proclaimed in Brazil?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Brazilian cruiser Almirante Barroso (1882).

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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 14:06, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

The cruiser Almirante Barroso, picture by Marc Ferrez, 1885

... that the Brazilian cruiser Almirante Barroso (pictured) was on a circumnavigation voyage with prince August Leopold on board when the republic was proclaimed in Brazil? Source: "Dom Augusto Leopoldo [...] estava no exercício da mais importante comissão, quiçá de sua carreira, fazendo viagem de circumnavegação a bordo do cruzador auxiliar Almirante Barroso, quando o golpe de estado do marechal Deodoro, a que se seguiu a retirada e logo após o banimento da família imperial, veio abrupta e dolorosamente arrancá-lo à pátria, aos amigos e à gloriosa corporação a que servia". (Dom August Leopold [...] was carrying out the most important commission, perhaps of his career, making a circumnavigation trip aboard the auxiliary cruiser Almirante Barroso, when marshal Deodoro's coup d'état, followed by the withdrawal and soon after the banishment of the imperial family, came abruptly and painfully to tear him away from his homeland, his friends and the glorious institution he served; Lessa, Clado Ribeiro de (1951). "O Segundo Ramo da Casa Imperial e a nossa Marinha de Guerra". Revista do Instituto Historico e Geografico Brasileiro. 211: 129–130. ISSN 0101-4366, p. 125
- Reviewed:
- Comment: My first ever nomination.

Created by Torimem (talk). Self-nominated at 23:38, 11 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Brazilian cruiser Almirante Barroso (1882); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Length, history and existence of reference verified. Good to go. Daniel Case (talk) 21:51, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Miles[edit]

There are five distances in the article in miles. It is not clear if these are nautical miles or imperial miles. The context makes them likely to be nautical. We have taken the Portuguese 'velocidade de 12 milhas horárias' from the reference as being 12 knots. The mention of a location being 'approximately 120 miles from Suez' and 'about 30 miles south of the Ras Gharib lighthouse' means there about 90 of these miles between Suez and Ras Gharib. Google maps has that distance as 190 km in a straight line. That would be 100 nmi; 120 mi which also supports them being nautical. If no one objects, I'll clarify the miles as being nautical and include a conversion to km. Cavrdg (talk) 11:25, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --Cavrdg (talk) 07:38, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]