Glossary

Type classification

All ship type codes on the list are based on USN hull classification codes or modifications thereof.

In-game tab	Code	In-game Code	Japanese Name		English Name
			Kanji	Romaji
BB/BC	FBB	戦	高速戦艦	Kōsoku Senkan	Fast Battleship
	BB		戦艦	Senkan	Battleship
	BBV	航戦	航空戦艦	Kōkū Senkan	Aviation Battleship
CV/CVL	-		正規空母	Sei'ki kūbo	Fleet Carrier
	CV	航	航空母艦	Kōkū bokan	Standard Aircraft Carrier
	CVB	装母	装甲空母	Sōkō kūbo	Armored Aircraft Carrier
	CVL	軽母	軽空母	Kei kūbo	Light Aircraft Carrier
CA	CA	重巡	重巡洋艦	Jū Jun'yōkan	Heavy Cruiser
	CAV	航巡	航空巡洋艦	Kōkū Jun'yōkan	Aviation Cruiser
CL	CL	軽巡	軽巡洋艦	Kei Jun'yōkan	Light Cruiser
	CLT	雷巡	重雷装巡洋艦	Jūraisō Jun'yōkan	Torpedo Cruiser
	CT	練巡	練習巡洋艦	Renshū Jun'yōkan	Training Cruiser
DD	DD	駆逐	駆逐艦	Kuchikukan	Destroyer
DE	DE	海防	海防艦	Kaiboukan	Coastal defence ship (Destroyer Escort)
SS	SS	潜	潜水艦	Sensuikan	Submarine
	SSV	潜母	潜水空母	Sensuikūbo	Submarine Aircraft Carrier
AV/AO/AS/...	AV	水母	水上機母艦	Suijōkibokan	Seaplane Tender
	AO	補給	給油艦/補給艦	Kyūyukan	Fleet Oiler
		特務艦	特務艦		"Auxiliary Ship Utility" (Souya (AGS))
		灯台補給	灯台補給船		"Lighthouse tender" (Souya (AGL))
		南極観測	南極観測船		"Auxiliary Icebreaker" (Souya (AGB))
		随護空	特設護衛空母		"Escort Carrier" (Yamashio Maru)
	AS	潜母艦	潜水母艦	Sensui bokan	Submarine Tender
	AR	工	工作艦	Kōsakukan	Repair Ship
	LHA	揚陸	ドック型揚陸艦	Dokkugata Yōrikukan	Amphibious Assault Ship

In addition, some subtypes may also be used like :

• CVE for Escort Carriers
• CVN for Night Carriers
• BC for Battle Cruisers, only seen in the Composition menu's filtering tabs, mostly referring to the Kongou-class.

Notes:

• The term Kūbo (空母) is a shorthand for Kōkū bokan (航空母艦), which means "Aircraft Carrier".
• In-game, the cards & encyclopedia have the ship class English Name, but some are rendered differently from above:
  • "Battleship" instead of "Fast Battleship"
  • "Aircraft Carrier" instead of "Standard Aircraft Carrier"
  • "Aircraft Carrier" instead of "Armored Aircraft Carrier"
  • "Aircraft Cruiser" instead of "Aviation Cruiser"
  • "Aircraft Carrying Submarine" instead of "Submarine Aircraft Carrier"
  • "Seaplane Carrier" instead of "Seaplane Tender"

General

API link

For more information on this topic, see Play without VPN/Proxy.

A method to play the game without having to access the official DMM website.

Docking

For more information on this topic, see Docking.

This allows your damaged ships to be repaired to full health by consuming steel and fuel. You can use an instant repair (高速修復材) to immediately finish.

Expedition

For more information on this topic, see Expedition.

This is where you send your fleets to complete expeditions, in exchange for resources and certain items. Certain ships and equipment can be obtained exclusively through expeditions.

Modernization

For more information on this topic, see Modernization.

The process of using spare ships to increase the stats (firepower, AA, torpedo, armor) of ships up to a certain point. Luck can also be modernized with Maruyu, but she is difficult to obtain.

Naval Exercise

For more information on this topic, see Exercises (PvP).

These are battles against other players' fleets. Opposing teams update in real-time, but there is no simultaneous play.

• New opponent list refreshed at 03:00 and 15:00 JST

Crossing the T

For more information on this topic, see Engagement.

Classic naval strategy in which a line of warships cross in front of a line formation of enemy ships, allowing the crossing line to bring all their guns to bear while receiving fire from only the forward guns of the enemy. Gameplay-wise, when your fleet crosses the enemy fleet, both sides (counter-intuitively) gain a significant increase in firepower. When the opponent crosses your fleet, both sides receive a significant firepower debuff.

Phases of Battle

For more information on this topic, see Combat.

• Day Battle
  1. Reconnaissance (Stat boost, avoid Red-T)
  2. Land-Based Air Squadron attack
  3. Initial airstrikes (Jet Assault, opening bombing, air superiority)
  4. Support fleet attack
  5. Battle Opening (OASW, Opening Torpedo Salvo)
  6. Shelling/artillery phase (regular airstrike happens here)
  7. Final Torpedo salvo
• Night Battle (with special cut-ins)

Remodel

For more information on this topic, see Remodel.

Often confused with Modernization, will usually result in *ship name*-Kai (改). also known as Upgrading.

Morale

Fatigue

For more information on this topic, see Tutorial: FAQ#Alright, I built my ship and kicked some butt, but I noticed the orange faces. What gives?.

Orange or Red sad faces are displayed next to the ship icon if they are too fatigued. Rest them for 15 to 30 min to have them back at normal morale. Fatigue will reduce by 3 every 3 minutes. Fatigued ships will have lower accuracy and evasion. If your ships are still fatigued upon returning from expeditions, your expedition will end up failing even with all other criteria fulfilled.

Sparkle

For more information on this topic, see Sparkling/glittering!.

The polar opposite of Fatigue. If a ship "sparkle", she will gain a boost in sorties. Sparkling also plays a very important role in expeditions, where having multiple sparkled girls can increase significantly the "Great Succes" rate. See Help:Sparkling to learn how to sparkle ships.

Food supply ships Mamiya/Irako

For more information on this topic, see Morale/Fatigue.

Items that respectively remove fatigue and increase the morale of your fleet.

Medal

For more information on this topic, see Blueprint.

Medals are a multi-purpose item that can be exchange for resources, consumables or a Remodel Blueprint. They are also needed for certain quests.

• 1 medal can be used to exchange for x300, x300, x300, x300 and x2.
• 1 medal can also be used to exchange for Improvement Materials x4.
• 4 medals are needed to exchange for one Remodel Blueprint .

Medals can be obtained by clearing certain maps and quests and are common among event rewards. You can find the number of medals you own and exchange them on your Inventory page.

Tracer-fire effect

This occurs when a ship fires any equipped machine guns to defend itself, reducing incoming damage from enemy bombers. Your flagship will always do this by default, even without any anti-air stat.

Equipment Icons

Every piece of equipment in the game has an icon, regrouping them by type, giving a quick visual indicator on what a given equipment is.

• One icon can be shared with different equipment types.
• Some icons are used for a single equipment.
• Some equipment icons on the wiki will be displayed with "text" Text, indicating special notes like stats or sub-types of equipment.

Carriers-Bassed:
The base type of plane in the game:

• Fighters. Provide air-power and shoot down opposing aircraft.
  • Night Fighters. Night battle capable fighters.
• Dive Bombers & Fighter-Bombers. Have a strong shelling-phase attack, and will not attack Installations unless they are Anti-Installation Dive Bombers.
• Torpedo Bombers (larger bombers, sometimes called "attackers"). Have a strong preliminary attack, and can attack Installations.
  • Night Bombers, Night battle capable Torpedo Bombers.
• Jets
  ("Jet Fighter-Bombers"). They provide air-power, have a shelling-phase attack, and also carry an initial "Jet Assault".
• Recons boost accuracy and LoS greatly, enabeling contact in right conditions.
  • Sp Larger Recons. Recons only equipable on CVB.

Land-Based:
Planes only usable on Land-Based (because of their size or use):

• Bombers, act like dive bombers/torpedo bombers:
  • Attackers:
    • Land-Based Attackers
    • bomber Army Land-Based Attacker
    • Land-Based Assault Aircraft
      (Army attackers).
    • Land-Based ASW Bombers
      .
  • Land-Based Heavy Bombers
    .
• Interceptors/Fighters, act like fighters:
  • Interceptors // IJN Fighters.
  • Land-Based Fighter // IJA planes.
• LB Land-based Recons
  . Boosts accuracy and LoS greatly and act as range extenders.

Seaplanes:
Planes only compatible with ships having the appropriate catapult:

• Seaplanes:
  • recon Seaplane Recons, provide Artillery spotting.
    • Night Recons
      . Act like Seaplane Recons but can also trigger at night.
  • bomber Seaplane Bombers. Act like dive bombers.
• Seaplane Fighters. Act like fighters.
• Flying boats
  . Only participate in bombing if other planes are present, and are only equipable by several AVs. On LBAS, they mostly act as range extenders. PBY-5A Catalina have an additional crew recovery mechanic.

Misc:
Some ASW focused aircraft used in niche roles:

• Rotorcraft, including Autogyros
  
  and Helicopters
  .
• Liaison Aircrafts
  .

Naval Guns:

• Main Guns. Primarily used for surface combat:
  • Small Guns, are mostly used on smaller ships like Destroyers.
  • Medium Guns, are mostly used on medium ships like Cruisers.
  • Large Guns, are used on Battleships.
    • Sp Very Large Guns
      
      Very Large Guns, are Large Guns only equipable on some of the largest Battleships.
• Secondary Guns (surface). Increase Accuracy and AA stats, and also trigger some combat mechanics.
• High-Angle Guns (dual-purpose), anti-aircaft focused guns.
  • Main Main High-Angle Guns (Small & Medium), act like main guns with AA boost.
  • Sec Secondary High-Angle Guns act like secondary guns with AA boost.
• AA Machine Guns // AA Rocket Launchers
  
  , specifically attack aircraft and trigger a tracer-fire effect.

Torpedoes:

• Torpedoes. Are used to enable special attacks and cut-ins.
  • Sub Submarine Torpedoes. Torpedoes exclusive to submarines:
    • Sub_LM Late Model Submarine Torpedoes. Advance torpedoes, enabeling special cut-ins.
    • Stern Stern Submarine Torpedoes
      . Can be equipped in a Reinforcement Expansion slot.
• Minisub Midget Submarine
  
  Midget Submarines. When equipped, they trigger an opening torpedo salvo. They do not count as regular torpedoes and so cannot trigger any relevant cut-in.

Anti-Submarine Warfare:

• Depth Charges. Bombs set to detonate at a specific depth, crippling target submarines:
  • DCP Depth Charge Projectors. Greatly effective for ASW Synergy.
  • DCR Depth Charge (Racks). Greatly effective for ASW Synergy.
  • Other ASW Mortar
    . Weaker than other Depth Charges, they also attack Installations.
• Sonars. They are required for better ASW efficiency, and provide some evasion boost against torpedoes:
  • Small Small Sonars. Used on smaller ships, greatly effective for ASW Synergy.
  • Large Large Sonars. Only used on heavier ships.

• Radars provide increased accuracy and LoS:
  • Small Small Radars for smaller ships.
  • Large Large Radars for larger ships.
    • Sp Very large radar
      for battleships.
  • AA Air Radars are AA focused, and are required for most AACI
  • Surface Surface Radars give more LoS anc accuracy, and may be needed for Routing.

• Submarine Radars
  
  
  are exclusive to submarines and have a similar effect as regular radars.

• Searchlights
  provide an accuracy boost and increase the cut-in chance in night battle, but result in the ship carrying them being more targeted.
  • Small Small Searchlights for all ships.
  • Sp Large Searchlights for larger ships.

• Star Shell reduce the enemy cut-in chance and increase allied cut-in rates.
• Skilled Lookouts
  increase the cut-in chance and accuracy against light enemies and unlock new cut-ins.

• Landing Crafts are used for Expeditions and Sortie resources gain, for Transport Operations, and for Anti-Installation. Some sub-types have greater effectiveness for some of those uses:
  • TP Transport DLC
    mostly used for Expeditions.
  • Tank Landing Tanks
    
    
    
    mostly used for Anti-Installation.
  • Armed Armed Boats
    mostly used for Anti-Installation and have an additional anti-PT bonus.
• Tanks have a similar use to Landing Craft, with a lesser use for resource gain and the greatest effectiveness against Installations.
• Drums are needed for some Expeditions and routing, and are used in Transport Operations.

• AA Fire Directors
  , give an AA boost and are used in some AACI.
• Shells
  • AA Shells
    confer a small AA bonus, but are primarily utilized against "soft Installations".
  • AP Shells
    
    increase firepower, allow for AP Cut-Ins, and confer an additional post-cap firepower bonus against harder targets.

• Anti-ground Rocket Launchers
  
  confer a flat firepower bonus against Installations.

• Armors // Bulges, increase armor:
  • Medium Medium armors
    
    are avaylable for medium and larger ships.
  • Large Large armors
    
    are avaylable for larger ships.

• Engines // Speed modifiers
  
  . They increase evasion, and when combined, also provide a boost to ship's speed.
• Ship Repair Facility enable special Repairs in relevant situations.

• Aviation Personnel, aviation-related special equipement:
  • SCAMPSCAMP extends the range and give extra firepower.
  • NOAPNOAP
    allow carriers to attack at night when equipped with Night Planes.
  • AGDPAGDP is needed for CV/CVB/CVL to sortie in "Arctic Maps".

• Command Facilities
  
  allow for ships in a fleet to retreat when critically damaged.
  • FCFFleet Command Facility (FCF) for Combined Fleets.
  • SFCFStriking Force Fleet Command Facility (SFCF) for Striking Force Fleets.
  • TCFElite Torpedo Squadron Command Facility (TCF) for "Torpedo Squadrons" (CL & DD only fleets).
• Saiun (Disassembled for Transport).

• Consumables, single use items:
  • Underway Replenishment allows for AO to restore fuel and ammo to ships during a sortie and serve the same role as Drums during Transport Operations.
  • Repair Personnel
    prevent ships from sinking.
  • Rations
    
    restore morale during sorties.

Custom icons madeup for wiki usage:

• = Empty
• = WildCard
• = High-Angle Gun + AA Fire Director Built-In
• = Powerfull AA (concentrated)
  
  (CDMG)
• = Zuiuns
• = Either or
• Night Planes:
  • = Night Bombers
  • = Suisei Model 12 (w/ Type 31 Photoelectric Fuze Bombs)
  • = Night Fighters

IJN ship-naming conventions

• Destroyers are named after natural phenomena, often snow (雪, "-yuki"), waves (波, "-nami"), rain (雨, "-ame", "-are"), wind (風, "-kaze"), clouds (雲, "-kumo" or "-gumo"), the moon (月, "-tsuki" or "-zuki") or tides (潮, "-shio").
• Light Cruisers are named after rivers.
• Heavy Cruisers are named after mountains.
  • Exceptions: The Mogami class were originally designed as Light Cruisers before being extensively modified into Heavy Cruisers (and later Aviation Cruisers), and so are named after rivers.  The Tone class also, being more lightly armed than the Takao or Myoukou classes, were also named after rivers.
• Battleships are named after provinces.
  • Exceptions:  The Kongou class were originally designed as Battlecruisers, which were named after mountains before "heavy cruiser" became a separately defined class from simply "cruiser".
• Aircraft Carriers all have the character for "dragon" (龍, "ryuu"), "phoenix" (鳳, "hou"), "crane" (鶴, "kaku") or "falcon" (鷹, "you") in them.  Light carriers tend to have "falcon" or "phoenix" names, where Fleet carriers tend to have "dragon" or "crane" names, but this is not strict.
  • Exceptions:  Akagi and Kaga were originally designed as a battlecruiser and a battleship, respectively, and follow those classes' naming conventions instead (Akagi is named after a mountain, Kaga is named after a province).  Chitose and Chiyoda were not originally aircraft carriers, their names are poetic words for "millennium".
  • While Taigei's name was changed to fit in with the standard Aircraft Carrier naming scheme ("Ryuuhou" means "Dragon Phoenix") when she was remodeled into an Aircraft Carrier, neither Chitose nor Chiyoda received the same treatment when they were remodeled.
• Submarines are simply given operating numbers in the same manner as German U-boats, following a syllable of the word 'Iroha'.  All long-range submarines were designated 'I-' (such as all the submarines present in KanColle), where coastal subs began with 'Ro' and training submarines were 'Ha-'  In Kancolle, the submarine girls use the classical Japanese number syllables (or just the number directly, in I-8's case) to make their numbers sound more name-like.
• Submarine Tenders were a varied group of ships.  Several of these had the character for "whale" (鯨, "gei") in their names, but many did not.
  • Shouhou and Zuihou were originally designed as Submarine Tenders before being converted into Light Carriers.  Like Ryuuhou, their names were changed upon conversion, they were originally named Tsurugizaki and Takasaki.
• Non-Navy Ships' names were often appended with "Maru" (丸) the character for 'circle'.  The reason for this tradition seems to have been lost to time, but may be related to the red circle being the symbol and flag of japan (the "hi-no-maru") or as a superstition, helping ships travel a circle of going out to sea and returning home.
  • The examples in KanColle are "Akitsumaru" (an Army ship) and both Hiyou and Junyou's names before they were converted to aircraft carriers: Izumo Maru and Kashiwara Maru.
  • The "maru" in "Maruyu" is a reference to this character, but does not actually appear in her name, which is a circle around the hiragana character 'yu'.
• Akashi was named after the Akashi Strait, near Kobe.  Since she was the only repair ship built for the IJN, the naming conventions of her class are unclear.

The Abyssal fleet's 'classes' are based on the Iroha, a classical Japanese alphabetical ordering.  That this is classical Japanese implies that the classes are externally ascribed to the Abyssal fleet ships, especially combined with the highly descriptive names for the bosses.

Birthdays of Ship Girls

The date a ship was launched is traditionally used as a ship's birthday; the dates presented here reflect this. These dates are sourced from Wikipedia.

#	Coastal defence ships	Date Launched
#	Shimushu-class	Date Launched
1st	Shimushu	13 December 1939
2nd	Kunashiri	6 May 1940
3rd	Hachijou	10 April 1940
4th	Ishigaki	14 September 1940
#	Etorofu-class	Date Launched
310	Etorofu	29 January 1943
311	Matsuwa	13 November 1942
312	Sado	28 November 1942
316	Tsushima	20 March 1943
318	Hirato	30 June 1943
319	Fukae	2 April 1943
#	Mikura-class	Date Launched
320	Mikura	16 July 1943
327	Kurahashi	15 October 1943
331	Yashiro	16 February 1944
#	Hiburi-class	Date Launched
328	Hiburi	10 April 1944
333	Daitou	24 June 1944
339	Shounan	19 May 1944
#	Type D	Date Launched
4th	Kaiboukan No.4	30 December 1943
30th	Kaiboukan No.30	10 May 1944

#	Destroyers	Date Launched
#	Kamikaze-class	Date Launched
1st	Kamikaze	25 September 1922
2nd	Asakaze	8 December 1922
3rd	Harukaze	18 December 1922
4th	Matsukaze	30 October 1923
5th	Hatakaze	15 March 1924
#	Mutsuki-class	Date Launched
1st	Mutsuki	23 July 1925
2nd	Kisaragi	5 June 1925
3rd	Yayoi	11 July 1925
4th	Uzuki	15 October 1925
5th	Satsuki	25 March 1925
6th	Minazuki	25 May 1926
7th	Fumizuki	16 February 1926
8th	Nagatsuki	6 October 1926
9th	Kikuzuki	15 March 1926
10th	Mikazuki	12 July 1926
11th	Mochizuki	28 April 1927
#	Fubuki-class	Date Launched
1st	Fubuki	15 November 1927
2nd	Shirayuki	20 March 1928
3rd	Hatsuyuki	29 September 1928
4th	Miyuki	26 June 1928
5th	Murakumo	27 September 1928
7th	Usugumo	26 December 1927
9th	Isonami	24 November 1927
10th	Uranami	30 June 1929
#	Ayanami-class	Date Launched
1st (11th)	Ayanami	5 October 1929
2nd (12th)	Shikinami	22 June 1929
5th (15th)	Amagiri	27 Febuary 1930
6th (16th)	Sagiri	23 November 1929
7th (17th)	Oboro	8 November 1930
8th (18th)	Akebono	7 November 1930
9th (19th)	Sazanami	31 June 1931
10th (20th)	Ushio	17 November 1930
#	Akatsuki-class	Date Launched
1st (21st)	Akatsuki	7 May 1932
2nd (22nd)	Hibiki	22 December 1932
3rd (23rd)	Ikazuchi	22 October 1931
4th (24th)	Inazuma	25 February 1932
#	Hatsuharu-class	Date Launched
1st	Hatsuharu	27 February 1933
2nd	Nenohi	22 December 1932
3rd	Wakaba	18 March 1934
4th	Hatsushimo	4 November 1933
5th	Ariake	23 September 1934
#	Shiratsuyu-class	Date Launched
1st	Shiratsuyu	5 April 1935
2nd	Shigure	18 May 1935
3rd	Murasame	20 June 1935
4th	Yuudachi	21 June 1936
5th	Harusame	21 September 1935
6th	Samidare	6 July 1935
7th	Umikaze	27 November 1936
8th	Yamakaze	21 February 1936
9th	Kawakaze	1 November 1936
10th	Suzukaze	11 March 1937
#	Asashio-class	Date Launched
1nd	Asashio	16 December 1936
2nd	Ooshio	19 April 1937
3rd	Michishio	15 March 1937
4th	Arashio	26 May 1937
5th	Asagumo	5 November 1937
6th	Yamagumo	24 July 1937
8th	Minegumo	4 November 1937
9st	Arare	16 November 1937
10th	Kasumi	18 November 1937
#	Kagerou-class	Date Launched
1st	Kagerou	27 September 1938
2nd	Shiranui	28 June 1938
3rd	Kuroshio	25 October 1938
4th	Oyashio	29 November 1938
5th	Hayashio	19 April 1939
7th	Hatsukaze	24 January 1939
8th	Yukikaze	24 March 1939
9th	Amatsukaze	19 October 1939
10th	Tokitsukaze	10 November 1939
11th	Urakaze	19 April 1940
12th	Isokaze	19 June 1939
13th	Hamakaze	25 November 1940
14th	Tanikaze	1 November 1940
15th	Nowaki	17 September 1940
16th	Arashi	22 April 1940
17th	Hagikaze	18 June 1940
18th	Maikaze	15 March 1941
19th	Akigumo	11 April 1941
#	Yuugumo-class	Date Launched
1st	Yuugumo	16 March 1941
2nd	Makigumo	5 November 1941
3rd	Kazagumo	26 September 1941
4th	Naganami	5 March 1941
5th	Makinami	27 December 1941
6th	Takanami	16 March 1942
9th	Tamanami	26 December 1942
10th	Suzunami	26 December 1942
11th	Fujinami	20 April 1943
12th	Hayanami	19 December 1942
13th	Hamanami	18 April 1943
14th	Okinami	18 July 1943
15th	Kishinami	19 August 1943
16th	Asashimo	18 July 1943
17th	Hayashimo	20 October 1943
19th	Kiyoshimo	29 February 1944
#	Shimakaze-class	Date Launched
1st	Shimakaze	18 July 1942
#	Akizuki-class	Date Launched
1st	Akizuki	2 July 1941
2nd	Teruzuki	21 November 1941
3rd	Suzutsuki	3 March 1942
4th	Hatsuzuki	3 April 1942
#	Fuyutsuki-subclass	Date Launched
1st (8th)	Fuyutsuki	20 January 1944
#	Matsu-class	Date Launched
1st	Matsu	3 February 1944
2nd	Take	28 March 1944
3th	Ume	24 April 1944
4th	Momo	25 March 1944
#	Others	Date Launched
1st	Z1	18 August 1935
3rd	Z3	30 November 1935
1st	Maestrale	15 April 1934
2nd	Grecale	17 June 1934
3rd	Libeccio	4 July 1934
4th	Scirocco	22 April 1934
1st	Fletcher	3 May 1942
112th	Johnston	25 March 1943
74th	Samuel B. Roberts	20 January 1944
1st	Jervis	9 September 1938
5th	Janus	10 November 1938
1st	Tashkent	28 December 1937

#	Light Cruisers	Date Launched
#	Tenryuu-class	Date Launched
1st	Tenryuu	11 March 1918
2nd	Tatsuta	29 May 1918
#	Kuma-class	Date Launched
1st	Kuma	14 July 1919
2nd	Tama	10 February 1920
3rd	Kitakami	3 July 1920
4th	Ooi	15 July 1920
5th	Kiso	14 December 1920
#	Nagara-class	Date Launched
1st	Nagara	25 April 1922
2nd	Isuzu	29 October 1921
3rd	Natori	16 February 1922
4th	Yura	15 February 1922
5th	Kinu	29 May 1922
6th	Abukuma	16 March 1923
#	Sendai-class	Date Launched
1st	Sendai	30 October 1923
2nd	Jintsuu	8 December 1923
3rd	Naka	24 March 1925
#	Agano-class	Date Launched
1st	Agano	22 October 1941
2nd	Noshiro	19 July 1942
3rd	Yahagi	25 October 1942
4th	Sakawa	9 April 1944
#	Katori-class	Date Launched
1st	Katori	14 December 1939
2nd	Kashima	25 September 1939
	Other	Date Launched
1st	Yuubari	5 March 1923
1st	Ooyodo	2 April 1942
1st	Gotland	14 September 1933
1st	De Ruyter	11 March 1935
#	Duca degli Abruzzi-class	Date Launched
1st	Duca degli Abruzzi	21 April 1936
2nd	Giuseppe Garibaldi	21 April 1936
#	Brooklyn-class	Date Launched
7th	Honolulu	26 August 1937
#	St. Louis-class	Date Launched
1st (8th)	Helena	28 August 1938
#	Atlanta-class	Date Launched
1st	Atlanta	6 September 1941
#	Leander/Perth-class	Date Launched
6th/1st	Perth	27 July 1934
#	Town-class	Date Launched
3rd	Sheffield	23 July 1936

#	Heavy Cruisers	Date Launched
#	Furutaka-class	Date Launched
1st	Furutaka	25 February 1925
2nd	Kako	10 April 1925
#	Aoba-class	Date Launched
1st	Aoba	25 September 1926
2nd	Kinugasa	24 October 1926
#	Myoukou-class	Date Launched
1st	Myoukou	16 April 1927
2nd	Nachi	15 June 1927
3rd	Ashigara	22 April 1928
4th	Haguro	24 March 1928
#	Takao-class	Date Launched
1st	Takao	12 May 1930
2nd	Atago	16 June 1930
3rd	Maya	8 November 1930
4th	Choukai	30 June 1931
#	Mogami-class	Date Launched
1st	Mogami	14 March 1934
2nd	Mikuma	31 May 1934
3rd	Suzuya	20 November 1934
4th	Kumano	15 October 1936
#	Tone-class	Date Launched
1st	Tone	21 November 1937
2nd	Chikuma	19 March 1938
#	Admiral Hipper-class	Date Launched
3rd	Prinz Eugen	22 August 1938
#	Zara-class	Date Launched
1st	Zara	27 April 1930
4th	Pola	5 December 1931
#	Northampton-class	Date Launched
1st	Northampton	5 September 1929
5th	Houston	7 September 1929

Battleships	Date Launched
Kongou	18 May 1912
Hiei	21 November 1912
Kirishima	1 December 1913
Haruna	14 December 1913
Fusou	28 March 1914
Yamashiro	3 November 1915
Ise	12 November 1916
Hyuuga	27 January 1917
Nagato	9 November 1919
Mutsu	31 May 1920
Yamato	8 August 1940
Musashi	1 November 1940
Bismarck	14 February 1939
Conte di Cavour	10 August 1911
Littorio	22 August 1937
Roma	9 June 1940
Colorado	22 March 1921
Maryland	24 April 1917
Washington	1 June 1940
South Dakota	7 June 1941
Iowa	27 August 1942
Warspite	26 November 1913
Nelson	3 September 1925
Richelieu	17 January 1939
Gangut	20 October 1911

Light Carriers	Date Launched
Houshou	13 November 1921
Ryuujou	2 April 1931
Shouhou	1 June 1935
Zuihou	19 June 1936
Hiyou	24 June 1941
Junyou	26 June 1941
Kasuga Maru	19 September 1940
Yawata Maru	31 Octember 1939
Shinyou	18 December 1933
Gambier Bay	22 November 1943

Standard Carriers	Date Launched
Akagi	22 April 1925
Kaga	17 November 1921
Souryuu	21 December 1935
Hiryuu	16 November 1937
Shoukaku	1 June 1939
Zuikaku	27 November 1939
Taihou	7 March 1943
Unryuu	25 September 1943
Amagi	1 October 1943
Katsuragi	19 January 1944
Graf Zeppelin	8 December 1938
Aquila	26 February 1926
Saratoga	7 April 1925
Intrepid	26 April 1943
Hornet	14 December 1940
Ark Royal	13 April 1937
Victorious	14 September 1939

Submarines	Date Launched
I-8	20 July 1936
I-19	16 September 1939
I-26	10 April 1941
I-168	26 June 1933
I-58	30 June 1943
I-400	18 Jannuary 1944
I-401	11 March 1944
I-13	30 November 1943
I-14	14 March 1944
I-47	29 September 1943
I-201	22 July 1944
I-203	20 October 1944
Maruyu	31 October
U-511	21 Febuary 1941
Luigi Torelli	6 January 1940
Scamp	20 July 1942

Auxiliary ships	Date Launched
Seaplane Tender
Akitsumaru	24 Sept 1941
Chitose	29 November 1936
Chiyoda	19 November 1936
Mizuho	16 May 1938
Nisshin	30 November 1939
Commandant Teste	12 April 1929
Fleet Oiler
Kamoi	8 June 1922
Hayasui	25 December 1943
Souya	16 February 1938
Yamashio Maru	14 November 1944
Amphibious Assault Ship
Shinshuu Maru	14 March 1934
Akitsu Maru	24 September 1941
Submarine Tender
Taigei	16 November 1933
Jingei	4 May 1923
Chougei	24 March 1924
others
Akashi	29 June 1938
Mamiya	26 October 1923
Irako	14 February 1941

List of artist

The list of Seiyuus (VA) is found here here

The list of Drawers is found here here

• "Youki" is speculated to be Shinanos drawer (from p.26 of Teitoku no Natsuyasumi & p.31 of Teitoku no Fuyuyasumi)

List of music by composers

Composer	Tracks
Okamiya Michio (岡宮道生)	Game, Event, OST -Akatsuki-, Incomplete
Ookoshi Kaori ( 大越香里)	Game, Event, OST -Akatsuki-, Incomplete
Usami Hiroshi (宇佐美宏)	Game, Event, OST -Akatsuki-, Incomplete
Uncredited	Japanese wiki

Kancolle dictionary

Acronyms

Ever see an acronym in the wiki you didn't know the meaning of and urban dictionary doesn't have it? While it is preferable to not use acronyms to avoid confusion, some discussions will inevitably have them. This is an incomplete list of acronyms used in discussions by English-speaking KanColle players.

• AA - Anti-Air
• AACI - Anti-Air Cut-in
• AAFD - AA Fire Directors
  
• ACH - Aircraft Carrier Hime
• AD - Air Denial
• AFP - Air Fighter Power
• AGB - Icebreaker
• AGDP - Arctic Gear & Deck Personnel
• AGL - Lighthouse tender
• AGS - Survey ship
• AI - Air Incapability
• AO - Fleet Oiler / Replenishment Oiler
• AP :
  • AP - Air Parity
  • AP - Air Power
  • AP - Armor Piercing
• AR :
  • AR - Repair Ship
  • AR - Action Report
• AS :
  • AS - Submarine Tender
  • AS - Artillery Spotting
  • AS - Air Superiority
  • AS+ - Air Supremacy
• ASW - Anti-Submarine Warfare
• AV - Seaplane Tender
• BB - Battleship
• BBV - Aviation Battleship
• BC - "Battle Cruisers" (unused in the game)
• BP - Blueprint
• CA - Heavy Cruiser
• CAV - Aviation Cruiser
• CCCI - Credit-Card Cut-In, a "joke cut-in" about paying to do someting.
• CDMG - Concentrated Deployment Machine Gun
• CF - Combined Fleet
• CI - Cut-In
• CL - Light Cruiser
• CLT - Torpedo Cruiser
• CT :
  • CT - Training Cruiser
  • CT - Closing Torpedo
• CTF - Carrier Task Force
• CV :
  • CV - Character Voice, same as VA
  • CV - Aircraft Carrier / Standard Aircraft Carrier ("Croiseur Vol")
• CVB - Armored Aircraft Carrier / Armored Carrier ("Croiseur Vol Blindé")
• CVCI - Aircraft Carrier Cut In
• CVE - Escort carrier, an ASW specialized light aircraft carrier ("Croiseur Vol d'Escorte")
• CVL - Light Aircraft Carrier / Light Carrier ("Croiseur Vol Léger")
• CVN - Night Aircraft Carrier (not "nuclear CV" here)
• DA - Double Attack
• DD - Destroyer
• DE - "Destroyer Escort" but this designates "Coastal Defense Ship" in Kancolle
• DLC - Daihatsu Landing Craft
• EO - Extra Operation (maps 1-5, 1-6, 2-5, 3-5, 5-5, 6-5, and some event maps)
• FBB - Fast Battleship
• FCF - Fleet Command Facility
  
  
• FCM - First Class Medal
• FF :
  • FF - Friendly Fleet
  • FF - Fast Fleet
• FP - Firepower
• FS - Flagship
• GS - Great Success
• HMAS - Her/His Majesty's Australian Ship
• HMS - Her/His Majesty's Ship
• HNLMS - His/Her Netherlands Majesty's Ship
• HQ - Headquarter LV (Admiral personal LV)
• IJA - Imperial Japanese Army
• IJN - Imperial Japanese Navy
• JA - Jet Assault
• KC - Kantai Collection
• KMS - Kriegsmarine Ships
• LBAS - Land-Based Air Squadron
• LD - Last Dance
• LHA - Amphibious Assault Ship
• LoS/LOS - Line of Sight
• LSC - Large Ship Construction
• MN - Marine nationale (French Navy)
• MO - Main Operation, all maps other than EO.
• NOAP - Night Operation Aviation Personnel
  
• OA - Opening Airstrike
• OASW - Opening ASW
• OT/O torp - Opening Torpedo
• RADAR - RAdio Detection And Ranging
• RAN - Royal Australian Navy
• RE - Reinforcement Expansion (extra ship slot)
• RL/RLK2 - 12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher/12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher Kai Ni
• RM - Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy)
• RN - Royal Navy
• RNN - Royal Netherlands Navy
• RP - Ranking points
• RSC - Resources
• RNG - Random Number Generation
• SCAMP - Skilled Carrier-based Aircraft Maintenance Personnel
• SE - Support Expedition
• SF - Striking Force Fleet
• SFCF - Striking Force Fleet Command Facility
• SLO - Skilled Lookouts
  
  • SSLO - "Super Skilled Lookouts"
• SONAR - SOund Navigation And Ranging
• SPB - Sea Plane Bomber
• SPF - Sea Plane Fighter
• SPR - Sea Plane Recon
• SS - Submarine
• SSV - Aicraft Carrying Submarine
• STF - Surface Task Force
• TCI - Torpedo Cut In
• TCF/TE - Transport Combined Fleet / Transport Escort
• TP - "Transport Points"
• TSSL - Torpedo Squadron Skilled Lookouts
• TTK - "Teitoku", Japaneses for "Admiral"
• USN - United States Navy
• USS - United States Ship
• VA - Voice Actress, same as CV
• WG/WG42 - WG42 (Wurfgerät 42)

Abbreviations, Specific terms & Trivia

Alongside acronyms, you may encounter some abbreviations, specific terms, and trivia, some being Japanese terms or names, more practical names referring to specific in-game features, or even real-life Trivia.

• Big Seven - Refers to the firsts 7 battleships built to carry the biggest naval guns (>40 cm) allowed by the Washington Naval Treaty, namely, the Nagato-class, Nelson-class, and Colorado-class.
• Blow torches - Instant Construction Material
• BRS nicknames :
  • Black Rick Shooter - Heavy Cruiser Ri-Class Kai
  • Black Ruck Shooter - Battleship Ru-Class Kai
  • Black Wock Shooter - Standard Carrier Wo-Class Kai Flagship
• Bucket - Instant Repair Material
• Bulldozer - Construction Corps
• BURNING LOVE - Notable line from Kongou
• C2 - Studio/Dojin circle behind Kancolle
• Chuuha - "very damaged", orange damaged
• Debuff - Armor Reduction of event bosses.
• Dev mat - Development materials
• Flamethrower - Instant Construction Material
• Green T - Crossing the T (Advantage) Engagement
• Hole Punch - Reinforcement Expansion
• KancoDex - Library (Kancolle's Pokedex)
• Kancolle - Kantai Collection
• KanDex - Library (Kancolle's Pokedex)
• Kanmusu - kantai musume, ship-girl
• Nuke - Anti-installation setup using a tank, a DLC, and artillery, doing "nuclear-like" damages to installations (up to 9999 damages).
• Poi? (っぽい？) - Catchphrase of Yuudachi, meaning "maybe", referring to Ironbottom Sound.
• Red T - Crossing the T (Disadvantage) Engagement.
• Rensouhou-chan (連装砲ちゃん) - A Danbo-like robot which appears with some ships like Shimakaze. Amatsukaze having a more formal character, calls hers Rensouhou-kun instead.
• Rosa - Japanese AA rockets : 12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher & 12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher Kai Ni
• Screw - Improvement Materials
• Secretary - The flagship of the First fleet, the girl in the main menu.
• Shirei-kan - "Commander"
• Spoon - The Vanguard Formation, named after its shape.
• Tags - Ship Locking in events.
• Taiha - "heavily damaged", red damaged
• Tanaka - Kensuke Tanaka, creator and original programmer of Kancolle.
• Tank - Ka-Mi Tank, not to be confused with "Landing tanks" (see Landing Craft).
• Teitoku - "Admiral"
• Tenryuu Kindergarten - A common theme where Tenryuu and a destroyers' escort is regularly used in expeditions to optimize resources consumption. The official 4-Koma also shows Tenryuu as being good at taking care of children (destroyers).
• Torches - Instant Construction Material
• Touch - General name used for Special Attacks.
• Yasen - "night battle"
• ！すでのな - One of Inazuma's lines written "backward", in traditional Japanese format. Also appears as a wall scroll in the furniture page.

Girls nicknames

• 2-4-11 - Naka. 2-4-11 refers to the fuel-ammo-steel combination received from her scrap (if scrapping with her default equipment).
• ABKM - Abukuma
• Beaver - Yukikaze's nickname based on her appearance. Japanese call her 'Hamster'.
• Bisckuit - Bismarck
• CdC - Conte di Cavour
• Cranes - Shoukaku-class, both being named after cranes.
• Dragons - Souryuu, Hiryuu, and Unryuu, all three being named after dragons.
• Ducks - Akizuki-class
• Furei - I-201
• Fuumi - I-203
• Goto - Gotland
• Goya - I-58
• Hachi - I-8
• Hitomi - I-13
• Horny - Hornet, sometime Horny Maru
• Iku - I-19
• Imuya - I-168
• Iyo - I-14
• Kamo - Akitsushima
• KTKM - Kitakami. Wordplay from Japanese netslang KTKR which is read as "kita kore", literally "it's here", sort of like "woohoo I got it" or "I've been waiting for this!".
• Lebe - Z1
• Leberecht Maass - Z1
• Maass - Z1
• Max Schultz - Z3
• Melon-chan - Yuubari's nickname due to her uniform color scheme and general resemblance to a melon as well as the City of Yuubari, on the namesake Yuubari River, which is well known for its melons.
• Mito - Kaiboukan No.30
• Nagamon - Nagato's name "長門" 2nd kanji, "門", can be pronounced as mon. This name contrasts Nagato's seriousness with the silly and cute things she is usually depicted doing.
• Nagamutsu - Fusion of Nagato and Mutsu names, designating the class or both of them.
• Nimu - I-26
• Potatoes - Every characters drawn by Shibafu (しばふ), referring to the simple "potatoes-like" shape of their face.
• Pudding - Prinz Eugen, due to her name pronouciation in Japanese
• Ro - Ro-500
• Shioi - I-401
• Shion - I-400
• Sodak - South Dakota
• Strawberry - Harusame, referring to her hair color.
• Whales - Refer to Submarine Tenders having the kanji "鯨" meaning whale in their name.
• Yamasushi - Fusion of Yamato and Musashi names, designating the class or both of them.
• YKKZ - Yukikaze
• YMKZ - Yamakaze
• Yona - I-47
• Yotsu - Kaiboukan No.4
• Yuu - U-511
• Zekamashi (ぜかまし) - Shimakaze's name read backward (in traditional Japanese, characters are read right-to-left). Found on one of the Rensouhou-chan's lifebuoys.

See here [1] for more informal ships nicknames.