Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Britannic-class ocean liner

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 13:44, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Britannic-class ocean liner

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None of the sources in the article that I can access refer to a “Britannic class” and a search does not produce anything else that does either. I think the article creator just made it up. See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abyssinia-class ocean liner. Mccapra (talk) 11:25, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Mccapra (talk) 11:25, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Mccapra (talk) 11:25, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

• Comment The news that there is no Britannic class came too late for the December 1929 edition of The Shipbuilder (page 874) which said, concerning Harland and Wolff at Belfast: "the adjoining berth is being reserved for the second motorship of the Britannic class for the White Star line which will be begun immediately". Thincat (talk) 13:52, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
• Comment Good find. Are there any other sources that use the term? The instance in “The Shipbuilder” sounds to me like possibly a bit of journalistic free writing rather than an authoritative statement. Significantly the article creator didn’t appear to have found and usage of the term either. Mccapra (talk) 18:19, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

  It looks authoritative to me but it is on Google as an ebook (link above) so decide for yourself. I know nothing about ships so I won't give any further opinion. Thincat (talk) 18:50, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

• Delete. No evidence that "Britannic class" had any official usage or that there has been any widespread use of the term - it is not surprising that through the use of normal English, occasionally a journalist will come up with that phrase - but that does not come anywhere near meeting WP:GNG. Davidships (talk) 10:08, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
• Delete as per Davidships and none of the usual RS describe these ships as a class Lyndaship (talk) 17:01, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

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