Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26091970-20150604000724/@comment-26574811-20150927093824

119.56.124.74 wrote: BBV is on this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hull_classifications#B

And the very link you gave says that Carrier does NOT stand for "Carrier Vessel". It's an offshoot of cruiser classification so it actually means "Cruiser Voler", Voler being French for "to fly".

Which means that things on this page is NOT limited to the US classification. For this reason I doubt the credibility of this page.
 * CVF: Future Aircraft carrier (used briefly for Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carrier)



And, so CV actually means Aviation Cruiser at the beginning, lol. Thanks for the heads-up anyway.



"Unless you want to be horribly inconsistent..."

We are consistent, we categorize ships the way their respective owners did. IJN said Shoukaku is CVB (large carrier), so she was a CVB; USN said Essex is not, so she wasn't; RN didn't say anything about Illustrious, so it's up to us. We don't categorize IJN ships the American way, nor the other way around.

Mogami? Well, IJN considered her to be a CA anyway, they just faked her to be a CL.