Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170521154728/@comment-1017333-20170602054055

While I still think calling DE as Coastal Defense Ship is ridiculous (in terms of abbreviation making absolute 0 sense), I'm starting to see the beauty of going with the literal translation while I was going through the DE ships pages.

Excerpt from Shimushu's introduction line:

海を守る……海防艦っす！

I'm the Coastal Defense Ship that will protect the seas, su! ''It doesn't really work even with Coastal Defense Ship, so good luck making that work with (Destroyer) Escort. Thank god Ckwng for (probably) deciding to go with the first thing he sees in wikipedia when he was making the ship formatting module back in 2015.'' A Coast Defense Ship protecting the seas makes about as much sense as a Coast Guard Ship shelling Vietnam.

Interestingly, the latter happened.

Maybe Cutter is a better translation?