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Pringle Stokes

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• ... that Pringle Stokes, captain of HMS Beagle on its first voyage, and Robert FitzRoy, captain on the second voyage, both committed suicide?

• Reviewed: Kenneth (hairdresser)
• Comment: I may be off-net from 17-31 December, but can address any issues after then

Created/expanded by Aymatth2 (talk). Self nom at 20:14, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

• 16px Length of both hook and article fine. The assorted facts in the hook are referenced. (Slightly peculiar in that the fact that Stokes shot himself was referenced by a source saying he unsuccessfully tried to shoot himself but it is clear that he shot himself in the sense of hitting his head with the bullet, but also that it was the secondary effect of the gangrene that killed him and not the intended damage from the bullet.) Interesting coincidence in hook. It is neutral. The phrasing re his being the commissioning commander of the Beagle skirts with close paraphrase but I can't think of a better way to put things. QPQ met.--Peter cohen (talk) 18:36, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

(The source is an 1846 book, attributed. But I shuffled the phrasing to be on the safe side. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:15, 13 December 2012 (UTC))