Ship

Ship Type Identification

Class		Abbreviation		Note
駆逐艦	Destroyer	駆逐	DD	Very agile but lack of armor and firepower.
軽巡洋艦	Light Cruiser	軽巡	CL	Can equip medium caliber (cruiser) guns.
重雷装巡洋艦	Torpedo Cruiser	雷巡	CLT	Can equip Type A Ko-hyoteki to enable opening torpedo attack.
重巡洋艦	Heavy Cruiser	重巡	CA	Stronger than light cruiser, but cannot attack submarine(no ASW).
航空巡洋艦	Aviation Cruiser	航巡	CAV	Can enable ASW with seaplane.
戦艦	Battleship	戦	BB	Capital ship with heavy caliber guns and well armored. No ASW or torpedo attack.
	Fast Battleship			Kongou Class and Bismarck only. Other battleships are slow speed variant.
航空戦艦	Aviation Battleship	航戦	BBV	Can enable ASW with seaplane.
正規空母	Standard Aircraft Carrier	空母	CV	Attack enemy with planes and fight for air superiority. Cannot participate night battle. Must equip with bombers to enable attack.
装甲空母	Armored Aircraft Carrier	装母	CVB	Unlike other carrier, Taihou still able to attack with moderate hull damage.
軽空母	Light Aircraft Carrier	軽母	CVL	Weaker than standard carrier, but comes with ASW ability.
水上機母艦	Seaplane Tender	水母	AV	Chitose sisters original form. Can participate all day attack stages. *with correct setup
潜水艦	Submarine	潜	SS	Only participate in both torpedo phases and night battle, cannot targeted by ship without ASW ability.
潜水空母	Submarine Aircraft Carrier	潜母	SSV	Submarine that can equip seaplane.
揚陸艦	Amphibious Assault Ship	揚陸	LHA	Akitsumaru comes with a Daihatsu which provides resources bonus from expedition.
工作艦	Repair Ship	工	AR	Akashi can automatic repair your ship while idle. Read her page to see how it works.
潜水母艦	Submarine Tender	潜母艦	AS	Taigei is weak, but who don't like whale?

Note

• Both Battleships and Fast Battleships shared the same hull classification, BB.

• Some carriers called themselves 正規空母 (Fleet Carrier), which is a term to distinguish Aircraft Carriers from Escort Carriers (auxiliary) or other types of ships. Ship classes such as CV, CVL and CVB are fleet carrier.

• For a list of destroyers with its base stats and max stats, please click here. (Temporary)
• Currently there are 146 Ships in the game (Upgrade not included)

Ship Stats

• Firepower , Torpedo , Anti Air , Armor and Luck can be upgraded by Modernization.
• Firepower , Torpedo , Anti Air , Armor , Anti Submarine , Line of Sight and Evasion will improve from level up.
• Marrying a ship will increase her HP, luck and level cap. Increase in level cap allows the ship to have higher ASW, evasion and LoS.
• Ship remodel
  • 改 (Kai) stands for Modified/Revised/Improved/Altered, this term is used on all remodelled ships
  • ニ (Ni) or Zwei in German stands for the number 2, or Second, the term Kai Ni (改ニ) is applied to ships with a second remodel
• Rarity
  • Top-Left : Common
  • Bottom-Right : Ultra-rare

Note that other than background colour, the metallic symbol on the top left corner may also identify rarity.

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