Japanese ship names follow different conventions from those typical in the West. Merchant ship names often contain the word maru at the end (meaning circle)...

United States ship naming conventions for the U.S. Navy were established by congressional action at least as early as 1862. Title 13, section 1531, of...

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the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century. Following the Japanese ship-naming conventions, Settsu was named after Settsu...

class Shinyo, 6,200 units. Kaiten, approx. 420 units. Japanese ship naming conventions Japanese destroyers of World War II List of sunken aircraft carriers...

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had a roof 20 mm thick. Following the Japanese ship-naming conventions for light cruisers, the ship was named after the Ōyodo River in Kyūshū. Ōyodo...

ship names; See Japanese ship-naming conventions Maru code (JN-39), a World War II code used by Japanese merchant ships An alternate term for the Ancient...

Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on 1 April 1909. Following the Japanese ship-naming conventions, Kawachi was named after Kawachi Province, now a part of Osaka prefecture...

tanks. Following the Japanese ship-naming conventions for aircraft carriers, Sōryū was named "Blue (or Green) Dragon". The ship was laid down at the Kure...

Supplement Program of 1939, Shinano was named after the old province of Shinano, following the Japanese ship-naming conventions for battleships. She was laid down...

ships and conducted annual long-distance on-the-job training for graduates of the one-year officer candidate school. Japanese ship naming conventions...

98 in) AA guns. Following the Japanese ship-naming conventions for aircraft carriers, Ryūjō was named "Prancing Dragon". The ship was laid down at the Mitsubishi's...

essential elements of the Roman name from the second century onward were the nomen and cognomen. Naming conventions for women also varied from the classical...

re-designated Chiyoda Maru upon becoming a whaling ship, as per Japanese ship-naming conventions for merchant ships. Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 113 Jentschura...

'dominant' partner. Japanese ship naming conventions often attach names together without slashing or blending by using an XY name-name format. This format is...

their Chinese and Korean language names to the Western naming order. Western publications also preserve this Eastern naming order for Chinese, Korean and...

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storage tanks. Following the Japanese ship-naming conventions for aircraft carriers, Hiryū was named "Flying Dragon". The ship was laid down at the Yokosuka...

(254 mm) of armor. Following the Japanese ship-naming conventions, Kawachi and Settsu were named after ancient Japanese provinces, both now a part of Osaka...

The Black Ships (in Japanese: 黒船, romanized: kurofune, Edo period term) were the names given to both Portuguese merchant ships and American warships arriving...

The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a thought experiment and paradox about whether an object is the same object after having all of...

JACAR C08050092300, p. 2 Japanese ship-naming conventions List of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy List of Japanese Navy ships and war vessels in World...

[citation needed] Under the JMSDF's naming conventions, the ships are called goei-kan (護衛艦, lit. "escort ship") in Japanese and destroyer in English, as same...

1986. The convention for naming naval ships is as follows; Aircraft carriers are named after provinces. Nuclear-powered submarines are all named Changzheng...

often named after lead ships or the first ship commissioned. The Navy has a traditional naming convention for its ships. Moreover, the ship's type and...

Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, violating international agreements that Japan had previously signed, including the Hague Conventions, which prohibited...

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Japanese whaling, in terms of active hunting of whales, is estimated by the Japan Whaling Association to have begun around the 12th century. However,...

(ASEV) or (Japanese: イージス・システム搭載艦) are a pair of ballistic missile defense (BMD) warships under construction to be operated by the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense...