Talk:Straight decker

Type photo is incorrect

If I were positive I'd delete the picture myself but, I don't think the main photo in this article is a straight-decker by the definition given in the article. Mad Bunny (talk) 05:59, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

File:Eisenhower Locks.jpg

I see your point. Even though it has been here 10 years, I would agree and so have removed it. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:26, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

It's not clear though just what the definition of "straight-decker" is. This article is treating them as the design with the pilothouse forward, and anything with an aft bridge as outside that. That's not the definition used in the first ref here(Thompson (1991), p. 198) – that distinguishes between straight-deckers and self-unloaders, but recognises that there are non-traditional and non-Great Lakes ships (saltwater ships) which are both straight-deckers, yet have their bridges aft. So maybe the photo belongs after all? – although the text would need correction to match.

Really we need some clearer sourcing. Andy Dingley (talk) 20:42, 21 December 2019 (UTC)