Talk:HMS Alarm (1758)

Date incosistencies

In the "Experiments with copper sheathing" section: It was resurveyed in 1776, and the survey was somehow submitted in 1763 (7 years prior), and interest in copper-plated ships waned until 1775 (a year before the survey)? The cited reference ([4]) only mentions "Some few years after copper sheathing became general". --64.175.39.101 (talk) 08:04, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

The dates are actually all correct, but perhaps could be better worded to show the chronology of events. Alarm was copper-sheathed in 1761, but two years later a separate report to the Admiralty (and one nothing to do with the 1776 survey of Alarm herself) demonstrates the potential problems of corrosion. Interest in copper-sheathing wanes for the next few years and the problem is not seriously returned to until 1775. Meanwhile Alarm continues to sail the oceans with her copper-bottomed hull. In 1776 she is resurveyed and the issues set out in the 1763 report are found to be true. For the meantime Alarm's copper sheathing is removed while Admiralty experts spend the next few years experimenting and refining the techniques. Benea (talk) 20:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

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