Talk:USS Mettawee

Misnamed Ship

The USS Mettawee (AOG-17) has been misnamed the USS Mattawee (AOG-17) in this article -- appears to be a typographical error.

The USS Mettawee is of some importance as she was a Class-ship. The class has also been misnamed as Mattawee-Class instead of Mettawee-Class.

Rationale for claim of typographical error includes:

- The DANFS documents the Mettawee (AOG-17) but does not mention a ship named Mattawee.

- The DANFS claims she is named after the Mettawee river in New York, and such a river does exist near Granville in upstate New York.

- Many of the Mettawee-Class ships have been named after US rivers, and it seems logical that this naming convention was first established by naming the Class-ship after a US river.

I considered attempting to correct this error myself, but am not an experienced wikipedian and balked at the thought of change an article title, associated links, etc.

-- Jonathan Weesner 74.74.67.49 09:43, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

I didn't have much else to do today, so I made the shift. The reasoning looks sound, DANFS lists her as Mettawee and half the article actually refers to her as Mettawee. I corrected any occurances of Mattawee in the text, so hopefully that's the matter sorted. I'm a Royal Navy man myself, so if there's some mistakes I've made and she is actually Mattawee, I'm happy to accept correction. Benea 10:33, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Looks good to me. I couldn't find Naval Vessel Registry records for her, but MARAD confirms the spelling "Mettawee". I did some minor cleanup on the article, and added information on the final disposition of the ship. Maralia 14:58, 2 November 2007 (UTC)