Talk:USS Eagle 56

A fact from USS Eagle 56 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 October 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the 1945 sinking of USS Eagle 56 was classified as a boiler explosion until 2001 when historical evidence convinced the Navy to reclassify it as a combat loss due to enemy action?

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Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 14:31, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cause of loss[edit]

Why the reluctance to accept that a submarine may have been responsible, in spite of the eyewitness accounts from crew? Was there intelligence/security reason why the authorities did not want to admit the real cause? Drutt (talk) 17:53, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

During WWII there was a secret battle off the shores of New England. The government did not want to publicize how many merchant ships were being sunk. This would have alarmed the population, and provided comfort to the enemy. Instead, the government said that the loud explosions were the result of target practice. This tendency to cover up allied losses seems to have carried on until the end of the war. For more details, read this book. Jehochman ^Talk 17:58, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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NY Times says sunk by German Sub[edit]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/us/sunken-warship-discovered.html

98.118.62.140 (talk) 21:15, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Name[edit]

USS Eagle Boat 56, as in the article's title, or USS Eagle 56, as used throughout the text? 71.235.184.247 (talk) 23:25, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Per this source, USS Eagle 56 is more correct, though USS Eagle No. 56 appears to be the most correct. If there are no objections, I will move this article to "USS Eagle 56" circa 20 November 2020 when I get back from vacation. RobDuch (talk·contribs) 22:53, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]