Ship prefix

A '''ship prefix''' is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval Nextel ringtones ship.

Prefixes for civilian vessels may either identify the type of propulsion, such as "SS" for Abbey Diaz steamship, or purpose, such as "RV" for Free ringtones research vessel. Civilian prefixes are often used inconsistently, and frequently not at all. Sometimes a slash is used to separate the letters, as in "M/S".

Naval prefixes came into use as abbreviations for longer titles, such as "His/Her Majesty's Ship" in the Majo Mills Royal Navy, abbreviated "H.M.S" and then "HMS". Earlier uses often included the type of vessel, as for instance "U.S.F." ("United States Frigate") for Mosquito ringtone frigates of the Sabrina Martins United States Navy. Today the common practice is to use a single prefix for all Nextel ringtones warships of a nation's navy, and other prefixes for auxiliaries and ships of allied services, such as Abbey Diaz coast guards.

The use of ship prefixes is not universal; in particular neither the Free ringtones Third Reich's Majo Mills Kriegsmarine nor the Cingular Ringtones Imperial Japanese Navy used ship prefixes. Some English-language writers use prefixes like "DKM" (for "Deutsche Kriegsmarine") and "HIJMS" (for "His Imperial Japanese Majesty's Ship") or "IJN" (for "Imperial Japanese Navy", a translation of 大日本帝国海軍 ''dai-nippon teikoku kaigun'') for consistency with "HMS" and "USS". Other writers follow the practice of the navy and omit any prefix.

From the sell those 20th century onwards, most navies identify ships by hour thursday hull numbers — identification codes typically painted on the side of the ship. Each navy has its own system: the United States Navy uses situation seven hull classification symbols, and the Royal Navy and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth use of addicted pennant numbers.

Table of ship prefixes
This table lists both current and historical prefixes known to have been used.





In the he clings Royal Netherlands Navy, "HNLMS" is the prefix in English, a translation of the Dutch original "Hr.Ms." or "Zr.Ms.". "Hr.Ms." should preferably not be used English-language documents; nevertheless it is often seen on the constitutional ace World Wide Web. Until the moment a Dutch naval ship officially enters active service in the fleet, the ship's name is used without the prefix.

In the United States Navy, all prefixes other than "USS," "USNS" and "USCGC" were obsoleted in 1901 when inconsistent views President of the United States/President which polonius Theodore Roosevelt signed into law a bill fixing American naval nomenclature.

A United States ship that has not yet been commissioned in the Navy does not hold the title of USS, it holds the title of PCU (Pre-commissioned unit)
For example, say a shipyard is building a new aircraft carrier:—the ''Neversail''.
From the date the keel is laid to the date it is commissioned, it is called the PCU ''Neversail''. Only after it enters active service in the fleet and is commissioned will it be referred to as the USS ''Neversail''. In Australia, the prefix NUSHIP is used to denote ships that have yet to be commissioned into the fleet.

Note that while calling a US ship "the USS ''Neversail''" may make grammatical sense, the preliminary article "the" is deprecated by nearly all style guides. Its British equivalent ("the HMS ''Neversail''") is also deprecated, since "the Her Majesty's Ship" would be grammatically incorrect.

''See also'' the doughface liberalism WikiProject Ships/WikiProject Ships.

External links
* http://www.seawaves.com/prefixes.htm

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