Talk:List of Japanese Navy ships and war vessels in World War II

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Where are the cruisers, destroyers etc. ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.88.228.225 (talk) 15:53, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please advise what's the issue that we should be talking or fixing for with this article.
Da'jhan 02:08, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

There is no assertion of notability or even usability of this list. It'd be great if each vessel had an article, or at least if each class of vessels had an article. -- Emana (talk) 03:35, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikification[edit]

As far as I could see, the need to Wikify was only some minor points, which I have done.

I have standardised the abbreviations for knots (kn) - see the first paragraph of Knot (speed), and horsepower (hp) - see the first paragraph of Horsepower. I noted that a couple of the power ratings were given as PS, which I presume is the same. If I have got that wrong, I apologise. I have also made a few changes on capitalisation.

I do not understand some of the terms, particularly "all geared turbine" - a link to an explanation would be a good idea, since historical material may not be understood by modern readers.

I am not clear about user Emana's point about notability or usability, because you cannot foresee how someone will use this. However, it might be a good thing to include some data about the numbers of each type. I know there is a listing at List of ships of the Japanese Navy but a summary of numbers would give a reader an idea of the scale of the navy. What do you think? Patche99z (talk) 21:31, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"ps" is short for the German word "pferdestärke" and is known in Japan as the "metric horsepower", brought over by the French. 1ps=0.7355kw and 1hp=0.7457kw. I guess this should be noted at the top of the list? I think knot=kn should be also noted for clarification. Depending on the font size, kn could be confused with km. -- Emana (talk) 05:21, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The geared turbines were some kind of innovation pre-WWI in ship technology, where a slow rotational gear (SR gear?) was used to switch between propeller speeds. I don't know how it works exactly, but I see that there are French ships on Wikipedia with "SR gear turbine" as part of their propulsion system. -- Emana (talk) 05:35, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All good points, thank you. I have added a subhead for units and abbreviations, and reinstated my mistaken changes from ps to hp. If I have made any other mistakes, please correct them.

All geared turbines. I do not feel competent to do anything about this, so will leave it to others. It is not essential, anyway.

I think the article is quite useful - it gives readers a quick look at each type of ship. I would like to see a picture, maybe a silhouette, of each type, but maybe that is asking too much. After all, you can go on for ever in writing an article on something as complex as this. Patche99z (talk) 19:26, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually there are Japanese sites out there with silhouettes and stuff... suspiciously similar to the whole layout of this article - almost as if this article is a straight translation of those sites. Also, the sources on these specs should be cited. -- Emana (talk) 20:22, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Displacement[edit]

The article gives a displacement for every class of ship, but since it avoids saying if that displacement is in short tons or long tons and if that displacement is the treaty displacement or for a full load, it is nearly useless. 2601:645:101:1874:94B2:2F1:9E8C:2D23 (talk) 21:28, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Kaibōkan[edit]

I missed Kaibōkan-ships.--Falkmart (talk) 12:41, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've added the Kaibokan, merged them with the destroyers, and did the same for the torpedo boats. Brown Water Admiral (talk) 09:15, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Main battery column[edit]

Hi, people. Look at the battlecruisers table; I have added a column of what I think is vital info. Should this be done for the other ship types? Hungrydog55 (talk) 00:52, 27 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]