Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170521154728/@comment-32389360-20170526215609

Hyper Shinchan wrote: Hasemiru wrote: (A document is very important, doesn't matter if it isn't from the USN or the ONI as long as it contributes to find a middle ground to classify all of them into a main category, unless the Kancolle STAFF starts being specific with other classes, that's another story). Documents are important if they're relevant, USN and ONI official material is certainly more relevant than anything written by Japanese bureaucrats for SCAP usage, here we could end up picking EK used by the Russians going by this logic; anyway, if any document is "very important" here's the classification table by former IJN naval constructor LCDR Shizuo Fukui, who later became a famous historian, for his "Japanese Naval Vessels at the End of World War II" report, a compilation written in April 1947 for SCAP usage under the auspices of the Administrative Division of the Second Demobilisation Bureau (the former Navy Ministry):



It uses DE as corresponding American classification of kaibokan. This document in conjunction with the Standard Nomemclature for Naval Vessels: General Order No. 541 ranging from July 17, 1920 to June 29, 1975 would mean that the official classification for Shumshu-class and Etorofu-class would be as Escorts with the tag (DE).

This is one case that both demonstrates the use of USN official tags while classifying as escorts.

But I'm sure that someone will try to rebut this document with a totally different one, so this discussion in itself would end up at square one AGAIN.

At this point it's rather difficult taking a stance due to it being hard to determine even from documentation what the historical tag was due to disagreements between the parties that filed the documents. Even I don't know what side of history* to partake in.

*Side of History: I am not using this phrase like ex-president Barack Obama did during his eight year period to state that someone is always right or wrong. I state this as the different points of views that people from the past demonstrated in their time and managed to reach and influence our views.