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A fact from Ikazuchi-class destroyer appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 July 2008 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Ikazuchi class destroyers (example pictured), the first class of destroyers in the Imperial Japanese Navy, were all built in Scotland?

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Translations?[edit]

Although the article notes that all of these ships were named after celestial phenomena, their names are given in (transliterated) Japanese only. It's too bad that translations of the names are not provided, at least to the language of this encyclopedia. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 23:06, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Five of the names are celestial phenomena: Ikazuchi (thunder), Inazuma (lightning), Niji (rainbow), Akebono (dawn), Oboro (moonlight), but Sazanami means "ripple". Gdr 14:29, 28 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Added the translations to the table. WeeWillieWiki (talk) 17:55, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Clyde or Thames?[edit]

All the ships in this article are said to have been built by Yarrows on the Clyde between 1897 and 1899. However Yarrow Shipbuilders states that Yarrows moved from London between 1906 and 1909. Can anyone clarify, or is this article just making an assumption that the ships were built on the Clyde? Pterre (talk) 10:05, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've amended the article. To quote from Kings of Commerce by Thomas Charles Bridges (1928): "When, in the early years of this century, Alfred Yarrow decided to remove the works .. which had grown .. to be one of the biggest on the Thames .. the site selected for the new works was on the Clyde .. between 4000 and 5000 tons of material had to be transported .. everything from ..models to the heaviest machine tools. .. a train-load of from forty to fifty wagons left the works at Poplar every day. On July 14, 1908, the first destroyer was launched from the new works at Scotstoun. Pterre (talk) 00:31, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I see DYKHousekeepingBot has just caught up with this article. For the record the information in DYK was incorrect - the ships were built on the Thames at Poplar, London Pterre (talk) 01:25, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]