Talk:USS Impetuous

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The use of the pronoun "she" in reference to a sea vessel is out of place in an encyclopedia. It is vulgar-not necessarily bad, but a manner of speech that walks the line of humor, irony, and chauvinism and is distracting when searching for information.

Origin of the ship.

Trying to confirm all of the reports of what names this ship had carried, I find conflicting reports in DANFS and what this article claims so far. Impetuous [1], Paragon [2], Sybilla III [3]. Impetuous and Sybilla III both built 1915 so I would imagine they are the same. Paragon however, does not match the other two descriptions so I would be inclined to remove Paragon from this article description. Solved, mostly. Just needed to change the redirect to this article from Paragon. --Brad (talk) 23:12, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Origin clarified 7 Nov. 2021. One of several yachts built for Charles Joseph Davol named Paragon. Davol, member of seven yacht clubs and president and treasurer of Davol Rubber Company, had an almost confusing series of yachts. At the same time this one was under construction he was having a 100' yacht built by the same bilder. That one was probably Sybilla II bought by Betz before he bought Paragon and named it Sybilla III. At least three of the yachts built for him ended up in WW I and/or WW II naval service. A follow on, 140' Paragon became Paragon (PYc 36). At the rate Davol built yachts there may well be a Paragon between the 1915—1916 Paragon and the 1929 Paragon. Palmeira (talk) 15:28, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

There was a second yacht being built at the same time for Davol, but it was not the one that became Sybilla II. Palmeira (talk) 15:48, 7 November 2021 (UTC)