Talk:HMS Experiment (1784)/GA1

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Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 05:02, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a better link for lazarette in the lead? The current link is for a part of a ship, but the context is of a type of ship
Do any of the sources say why Experiment would have been named as such, since she seems to have been built to an established design?
Is it explicitly stated in the sources why it took so long to get her ready for commissioning? I'm assuming peacetime cost-cutting for a vessel that was now essentially obsolete, but it would be nice to be able to say so directly if the sources allow
"In the following year Experiment participated in operations to capture Martinique and Guadeloupe" - is this as a transport, a store ship, or an active combatant vessel?
So the British were trying to dump deportees onto the Spanish, who didn't want the influx of population, so the British attacked the Spanish garrison? I think another sentence or two of context would be useful there
"While en route she came across a Spanish fleet of merchant ships sailing from Cartagena, capturing eight of nine. Barrett unloaded three of these into the other vessels, and took the remaining five on to Halifax" - were the three who were unloaded then burned/sunk?
do the sources indicate what use/scrapping occurred after the sale?
"The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to the Preset" - should this be "present", instead of "preset"

Like with Endymion - coule you please provides quotes from the sources if possible for the following spot-checks of sources:

Several of Experiment's small boats were however used as landing craft for the operation, embarking soldiers from another troop ship

The historian William Laird Clowes picks out Lieutenant John Barrett, the commander of Experiment at the time, as one of the naval officers who distinguished themselves during this period