Talk:USS Dick Fulton

Dick Fulton

I would dispute the prefix used here of USS, or even the name Fulton, I believe this boat was never anything else than the Dick Fulton. Broichmore (talk) 19:25, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

I don't know about the use of "USS", but the name Fulton was undoubtedly used as an alternative - indeed, DANFS seems to imply that it was the official name in navy service. However, if it was never the official name, it should not be shortened in the narrative (we use surnames-only when referring to people in their articles, but do not shorten ship names like this, I think). Davidships (talk) 14:27, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

From Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1921. pp. 74–. under U.S.S. Dick Fulton it indicates "Name changed to Fulton". Ellet used Dick Fulton and Fulton in his dispatches e.g. Warren Daniel Crandall; Isaac Denison Newell (1907). History of the Ram Fleet and the Mississippi Marine Brigade in the War for the Union on the Mississippi and Its Tributaries: The Story of the Ellets and Their Men. Press of Buschart brothers. pp. 142–. --Kkmurray (talk) 15:30, 21 August 2018 (UTC)