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WRONG PICTURES?![edit]

Hey someone, those look like pictures of Cairo, Egypt, NOT the USS Cairo. Were there USS Cairo pictures uploaded before, and if so, where are they? (I'm sorry I don't know how to search for images...) ~GMH talk to me 20:31, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I restored the original images. (You can do so by clicking on the photograph in the article and selecting one of the previous versions in the edit history, saving that photograph, and then using the option "upload a new version of this file.") This incident demonstrates why it is a good idea to name image files more richly than Cairo1 and Cairo2. Hal Jespersen 20:57, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Upgraded page[edit]

Replaced old blue infobox with new-type light blue ship infobox with flags, using data in old box to fill the new box since the existing data was more complete than shown at DANFS. Some minor edits, but generally retained the text as it already existed. Fixed book reference with citebook; someone needs to fill in publisher, city, etc.

Added See Also, addional external links, some cats, otherwise a nice existing article.Wikited (talk) 16:37, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

First?[edit]

Cairo was the first ship sunk by a naval mine...

Do you mean the first ever? Or the first sinking of its kind in the American Civil War? This claim is made in the lede, but not referenced, let alone explained, in the main article. Valetude (talk) 18:23, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Answered my own question 27/10/15. Valetude (talk) 23:29, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Probably need to change the lede[edit]

            The article lede reads as follows:

USS Cairo /ˈkeɪroʊ/ was one of the first American ironclad warships built for the Union Navy at the beginning of the U.S. Civil War.

            Yet a few lines down, the article notes:

Cairo was built by James Eads and Co., Mound City, Illinois, in 1861 by under contract to the United States Department of War. She was commissioned as part of the Union Army's Western Gunboat Flotilla,[3] which had U.S. Navy Lieutenant James M. Prichett in command.[4]

Cairo served with the Army's Western Gunboat Flotilla on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, and their tributaries until she was transferred to the Navy on 1 October 1862 with the other river gunboats. She was commanded by Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote.[4]

            So the lede should probably acknowledge that the ironclad was built for the US Army and then transferred to the Union Navy  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ferreiro (talk • contribs) 12:43, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Also needs to say United States Navy...not Union Navy....there never was a Department of the Union NAvy. And for all effective purposes it was operated by the Navy...Cairo had a Navy crew and Naval officers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gcal1971 (talk • contribs) 17:07, 1 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Did you follow the link to Union Navy?Pennsy22 (talk) 08:57, 2 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]