German navy acronym?

[holden88]

Did the Kriegsmarine have an acronym? For example the British ships are all "HMS". Japanese ships are "IJN". US ships are "USS". Whenever I see German ships listed or mentioned it's just "Bismark" or "Graf Spee".

I'm just labeling my ships and want to get it right.

 

[BuShips]

You might use "DKM" as a 3-letter designation for the "Deutschland Kriegsmarine".

 

[pbeccas]

The German acronym is K.M. eg K.M. Bismark.

Simply standing for Kriegs Marine.

 

[Lord David the Denied]

I thought it was KMS...

 

[pbeccas]

I thought it was KMS...

No, but both KMS and DKM tend to weave their way around wargamers tables a bit. Nothing wrong with that.

http://www.answers.com/topic/kriegsmarine

http://www.combinedfleet.com/okun_biz.htm

 

[chaos0xomega]

I've heard both DKM and SMS. After typing Scharnhorst into the wiki search bar, I got DKM for the WW2 ship and SMS for WW1

 

[captainsmirk]

SMS stands for Seiner Majestät Schiff or His Majesty's Ship (hence being WW1).

Nick

 

[Soulmage]

My wife insisted that we use 3 letter abbreviations for each navy when labeling the underside of our bases with nationality, class, and PL.

So we use:

USN
IJN
BRN
DKM

 

[Poi]

While we're on the subject, what about Soviet vessels?

 

[Soulmage]

Well, it should probably be USSRN! LOL!!

For three letters, I guess you could go:

SUN
SCN (Soviet Citizen's Navy)
CWG (Comerades w/ Guns)

 

[Poi]

CWG (Comerades w/ Guns)

:lol:

 

[Chernobyl]

you guys might try this page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_prefix

though it doesn't list USSR, sorry!

Chern

 

[captainsmirk]

What the hell!
How come the United Federation Planets gets in there but not the USSR?!

As stated there the Kriegsmarine and Imperial Japanese Navy didn't use acronyms, possible that the USSR didn't either especially as the Russians don't use the one stated there themselves...


Nick

 

[Bob Hume]

"What the hell!
How come the United Federation Planets gets in there but not the USSR?!"

And where's the Imperial Klingon Navy? :x Whose acronym is IKS, btw.

 

[Lord David the Denied]

Or IKV, depending on who you listen to. However, no Klingon ship is referred to by name with an acronym. The name is given on its own.

 

[BuShips]

While we're on the subject, what about Soviet vessels?

This site http://www.maritimequest.com/warshi...ships/royal_sovereign/hms_royal_sovereign.htm uses a two-letter prefix of "RS". I dunno, Russkie Shipski :?: :roll: :lol:

 

[Chernobyl]

anybody got a copy of the book "The Hunt for Red October" around? :lol:

Chern

 

[Lord David the Denied]

In the other room, yeah... can't be arsed to check it, though...

 

[BuShips]

anybody got a copy of the book "The Hunt for Red October" around? :lol:

Chern

The current prefix used internationally is "RFS" for 'Russian Federation Ship', but note that internally it is not used. This would not work outside of the current time frame.