Board Thread:Wikia Discussion/@comment-25683568-20150318062713/@comment-749631-20150710211704

海防艦 is the game text for ship type 1. The wikipedia article Kaibōkan calls it a coastal defence ship. That is where I took the translation from. Destroyer Escort = [護衛駆逐艦 https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%AD%B7%E8%A1%9B%E9%A7%86%E9%80%90%E8%89%A6]. The game, to me, intends to make ship type 1 not a destroyer escort, but as "Kaiboukan". Maybe this is not the case. But as Kaiboukan are not implemented yet, I'm hesitant to make an assumption on their function when the game text implicitly refers to Kaiboukan. Even Destroyer escort seems to differentiate "destroyer escorts, frigates, and kaibōkan". As Japanese Wikipedia article for kaiboukan said, "日本海軍が太平洋戦争後期に多数建造した船団護衛等のシーレーン防衛や沿岸警備を主任務とする小型戦闘艦で、他国でいうフリゲートに相当する. 海防艦の英語表記はEscort（護衛艦）であり、対空・対潜武装を中心としたものであった. " It is marked as Escort in English. 護衛駆逐艦/Destroyer Escort is different, in the sense that it is a ship class for USNavy but not IJN's. Nor were I talking about changing its name into Destroyer Escort. I don't know what you meant by that response. You just stated something without specifying what you wanted to convey by stating that fact. All you told me was that Mamiya is a replenishment oiler. Since you didn't say anything else I could only assume that I convinced you. If that is not the case, you need to be more clear. The statement is intended to be rhetorical in the sense that Mamiya is actually a food supply ship instead of a oiler, and actually the Japanese wikipedia page also listed a variety of different supply ship like Water supply ship, Ammo supply ship, taskman supply ship and such instead of simply oiler should also demonstrate the fact that this word's meaning is more close to AP in general rather than being AOR. And on the other hand, i think the fact that you can complete those daily 補給艦 quest by killing those 輸送wa-class show that both terms are used interchangably.