Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1.9.226.3-20150228003756/@comment-25534439-20150301051301

She equips like a cruiser, her class translates as a cruiser type, her plane count, fuel/ammo consumption is similar to a light cruiser; I'd say it's not arguable that she's cruiser 'sized', even if a generally underpowered one.

She was classed erroneously as a Light Cruiser, because her stats generally look like a CL (most notably the ASW stat which causes her to shoot subs like a CL). Whether or not to include the 'L' in the code is a matter of preference, but I think including it to make her seem more CL-like is probably better.

Whether or not to use 'T' for Training or 'P' for Practice is something that could go either way, it's translation and the words are both valid translations. The bigger issue being that subtypes in the codes are suffixed, not prefixed (BB to BBV, not VBB), so Cruiser, Light, Training has an obvious clash with Cruiser, Light, Torpedo.

Perusing the Naval Register that these classifications have generally been shoehorned into, the Frigate (Reserve Training) comes closest. It has the FFT code, which would be consistent with Frigate (FF), Training (T). There's also at least one other that has the -T suffix for Training. Were it not for the code conflict with Torpedo Cruisers, I would suggest sticking to CLT.

The code conflict in mind, Practice Cruiser and CLP or CLp seems most functional to me, but I'd be interested in the poll results.