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Was Von Steuben more correctly classed "USNS", as controlled by USN but actually operated by civilians? Or does that postdate that era? Also, a pet peeve: the "HMS", "USS", &c shouldn't strictly be in the links; contrary to U.S. media, it's not actually part of the name...
The lists start with the Sp-Am War, but shouldn't CSN raiders be included? They operated much the same way. Trekphiler 10:10, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Can we get this moved to Armed merchant cruiser? "Merchantmen" is horribly archaic and cruiser better describes their fighting capabilities. Grant65 | Talk 02:07, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
What would the consensus be about including such ships as RFA Argus (A135) and Atlantic Conveyer. KTo288 09:27, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
If I understand this correctly, the former are armed for defensive purposes, while the latter for offensive. Anyone know anything different? Socrates2008 ( Talk) 13:08, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
May I invite your attention to the Armed Merchant Ship discussion under Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ships? I shared your perception that this article (from its title) addressed the former category rather than the latter. In fact, this article focuses on auxiliary cruisers (used either for defensive patrol or offensive raiding); so I created the Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships article to address the former category. Thewellman ( talk) 16:26, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
"Berlin" links to "SMS Berlin", should be "SS Berlin" Haarspalter ( talk) 12:13, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Dear wikipedians, the list of ships included is quite long and accounts for half of this article. Unless there is a sound reason not to (I can't think of any), I'll split the ship list in its own wikiarticle to make both more readable and manageable. Regards, DPdH ( talk) 03:41, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
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Was Von Steuben more correctly classed "USNS", as controlled by USN but actually operated by civilians? Or does that postdate that era? Also, a pet peeve: the "HMS", "USS", &c shouldn't strictly be in the links; contrary to U.S. media, it's not actually part of the name...
The lists start with the Sp-Am War, but shouldn't CSN raiders be included? They operated much the same way. Trekphiler 10:10, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Can we get this moved to Armed merchant cruiser? "Merchantmen" is horribly archaic and cruiser better describes their fighting capabilities. Grant65 | Talk 02:07, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
What would the consensus be about including such ships as RFA Argus (A135) and Atlantic Conveyer. KTo288 09:27, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
If I understand this correctly, the former are armed for defensive purposes, while the latter for offensive. Anyone know anything different? Socrates2008 ( Talk) 13:08, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
May I invite your attention to the Armed Merchant Ship discussion under Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ships? I shared your perception that this article (from its title) addressed the former category rather than the latter. In fact, this article focuses on auxiliary cruisers (used either for defensive patrol or offensive raiding); so I created the Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships article to address the former category. Thewellman ( talk) 16:26, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
"Berlin" links to "SMS Berlin", should be "SS Berlin" Haarspalter ( talk) 12:13, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Dear wikipedians, the list of ships included is quite long and accounts for half of this article. Unless there is a sound reason not to (I can't think of any), I'll split the ship list in its own wikiarticle to make both more readable and manageable. Regards, DPdH ( talk) 03:41, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
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