Template talk:Ship table multiple careers

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[edit] Usage

This template is designed to contain information on all types of ships. It is an centralised version of the table that has been used for ships on Wikipedia for a long time now. It contains a number of rows that will appear regardless of whether anything is filled in for those rows and a number of rows that only appear if they actually contain something. It is similar to Template:Ship table but allows the ship to have served in multiple navies. The empty version of the table looks like this:

{{Ship table multiple careers|

|Ship table fate=status
|Draught=

|Ship image=
|Ship caption=
|Ship country=
|Ship flag=
|Ship ordered=
|Ship laid down=
|Ship launched=
|Ship christened=
|Ship purchased=
|Ship commissioned=
|Ship decommissioned=
|Ship in service=
|Ship out of service=
|Ship renamed=
|Ship reclassified=
|Ship captured=
|Ship fate=
|Ship struck=
|Ship reinstated=
|Ship career 2=
|Ship country 2=
|Ship flag 2=
|Ship christened 2=
|Ship purchased 2=
|Ship commissioned 2=
|Ship decommissioned 2=
|Ship in service 2=
|Ship out of service 2=
|Ship renamed 2=
|Ship reclassified 2=
|Ship captured 2=
|Ship struck 2=
|Ship reinstated 2=
|Ship fate 2=
|Ship career 3=
|Ship country 3=
|Ship flag 3=
|Ship christened 3=
|Ship purchased 3=
|Ship commissioned 3=
|Ship decommissioned 3=
|Ship in service 3=
|Ship out of service 3=
|Ship renamed 3=
|Ship reclassified 3=
|Ship captured 3=
|Ship struck 3=
|Ship reinstated 3=
|Ship fate 3=
|Ship career 4=
|Ship country 4=
|Ship flag 4=
|Ship christened 4=
|Ship purchased 4=
|Ship commissioned 4=
|Ship decommissioned 4=
|Ship in service 4=
|Ship out of service 4=
|Ship renamed 4=
|Ship reclassified 4=
|Ship captured 4=
|Ship struck 4=
|Ship reinstated 4=
|Ship fate 4=
|Ship career 5=
|Ship country 5=
|Ship flag 5=
|Ship christened 5=
|Ship purchased 5=
|Ship commissioned 5=
|Ship decommissioned 5=
|Ship in service 5=
|Ship out of service 5=
|Ship renamed 5=
|Ship reclassified 5=
|Ship captured 5=
|Ship struck 5=
|Ship reinstated 5=
|Ship fate 5=
|Ship homeport=
|Ship displacement=
|Ship length=
|Ship beam=
|Ship draught=
|Ship propulsion=
|Ship speed=
|Ship range=
|Ship endurance=
|Ship test depth=
|Ship boats
|Ship capacity=
|Ship complement=
|Ship time to activate=
|Ship sensors=
|Ship EW=
|Ship armament=
|Ship armour=
|Ship aircraft=
|Ship motto=
|Ship nickname=
|Ship honours=
|}}

Using this version of the table will result in the following default being created on the page where the template is used, which is the same as for Template:Ship table as all the additional rows are optional:

Career
Laid down:	Unknown
Launched:	Unknown
Fate:	Unknown
General Characteristics
Displacement:	Unknown
Length:	Unknown
Beam:	Unknown
Draft:	Unknown
Propulsion and power:	Unknown
Speed:	Unknown
Complement:	Unknown

The rows that will always appear in the template are:

• Ship image
• Ship flag
• Ship laid down
• Ship launched
• Ship fate
• Ship displacement
• Ship length
• Ship beam
• Ship draught
• Ship propulsion
• Ship speed
• Ship complement

They are included as all ships, by definition, have those qualities. If they are empty the text rows default to "Unknown" and the image rows (Ship image and Ship flag) default to displaying Image:IIH.png as a placeholder.

The remaining rows in the table are optional and they only appear if they actually have something in them since not all ships possess these attributes. They are:

• Ship caption
• Ship country
• Ship ordered
• Ship christened
• Ship purchased
• Ship commissioned
• Ship decommissioned
• Ship in service
• Ship out of service
• Ship renamed
• Ship reclassified
• Ship captured
• Ship struck
• Ship reinstated
• Ship homeport
• Ship range
• Ship endurance
• Ship test depth
• Ship boats
• Ship capacity
• Ship time to activate
• Ship sensors
• Ship EW
• Ship armament
• Ship armour
• Ship aircraft
• Ship motto
• Ship nickname
• Ship honours

Additionally there are two configuration rows that appear at the start of the table markup:

• Ship table fate
• Draught

The values in those rows control the spelling and terminology of two rows of the table. The variable Draught controls whether that row of the table is spelt draught or draft. To get the British spelling insert any text into the variable. To get the American spelling leave it blank. The variable Ship table fate controls whether the Ship fate row of the table has the text fate or the text status displayed in the left-hand column of the table.

The usage of each row is as follows:

• Ship image - a photo or any other image of the ship in question using standard MediaWiki image markup, which should not be wider than 300 pixels
• Ship caption - a caption, if appropriate, to the image of the ship in question
• Ship country - the country that the ship served, usually presented in brackets
• Ship flag - the flag/ensign/jack the ship flew, again inserted using standard MediaWiki image markup
• Ship ordered - the date the ship was first ordered
• Ship laid down - the date the ship was laid down
• Ship launched - the date the ship was launched
• Ship christened - the date the ship was christened
• Ship purchased - the date the ship changed hands either by purchase or some other means like requisitioning, except for capture by enemy forces which is covered by another variable
• Ship commissioned - the date the ship was commissioned into a navy or other military service
• Ship decommissioned - the date the ship was decommissioned from a navy or other military service
• Ship in service - the date the ship came into service where it was not commissioned (for example ships of the Military Sealift Command of the United States Navy
• Ship out of service - the date the ship came out of service
• Ship renamed - the date the ship was renamed and what names it went under before and after the renaming
• Ship reclassified - the date the ship was reclassified, for example from a gun cruiser to a guided missile cruiser, and what classifications it went under before and after the reclassification
• Ship captured - the date the ship was captured due to enemy action in wartime or by pirates
• Ship struck - the date the ship was removed from any register of naval vessels it was on
• Ship reinstated - the date the was reinstated to any register of naval vessels it was on
• Ship fate - the current status of the ship if still extant or its final fate otherwise
• Ship homeport - the home port of the ship
• Ship displacement - the displacement of the ship, preferably at least full load displacement for warships and deadweight tonnage for merchant vessels
• Ship length - the length of the ship
• Ship beam - the beam of the ship
• Ship draught - the amount of water the ship draws
• Ship propulsion - the propulsion method used for the ship including details, if appropriate and available, of engine-type, number of shafts and shaft horsepower
• Ship speed - the speed the ship was capable of
• Ship range - the range of the ship at a particular speed
• Ship endurance - how long the ship can stay at sea and if a diesel submarine its underwater endurance
• Ship test depth - if the ship is a submarine the depth to which it was tested during trials
• Ship boats - details of the smaller craft such as admiral's barges and landing craft that the ship carries
• Ship capacity - the amount and type of cargo that the ship can carry and the amount of stores that a warship carries
• Ship complement - the number of officers and enlisted men serving on board the ship including a split into different organisations if appropriate and known
• Ship time to activate - if the ship is not in active service the time it takes to get the ship in active service from the moment the order to do so is given
• Ship sensors - the sensors that the ship possess including radar and sonar
• Ship EW - the electronic warfare and decoy equipment carried by a warship
• Ship armament - the armament that a ship possess including guns, rockets, missiles and torpedoes and the launching systems for those weapons if appropriate
• Ship armour - the amount of armour that the ship possess and where it is in the ship
• Ship aircraft - the aircraft that the ship can support and the aviation facilities that is uses to support those aircraft
• Ship motto - any motto known for the ship
• Ship nickname - any nicknames known for the ship
• Ship honours - any honours and awards bestowed on the ship, such as campaign awards, unit commendations and prizes (like the Blue Ribband for liners)

Where the vessel has multiple careers simply insert the data for career 2 into the variables labelled with a 2, and correspondingly for the third, fourth and fifth careers of a vessel if such exist.

To input information into the table simply insert it after the equals sign on each row as appropriate. If the ship is part of a large class of vessels and each of those vessels share common characteristics such as propulsion equipment then MediaWiki templates can be used to insert that information for each member of the class. Any unique features of a particular ship in the class can then be inserted after the template as appropriate.

[edit] Example of Usage

The markup below produces the table seen on the right of the page:

{{Ship table multiple careers|

|Ship table fate=status
|Draught=uk

|Ship image=
|Ship caption=
|Ship country=(USN)
|Ship flag=[[Image:Naval Jack of the United States.svg|48px|USN Jack]]
|Ship ordered=
|Ship laid down=[[25 November]] [[1918]]
|Ship launched=[[31 May]] [[1919]]
|Ship purchased=
|Ship commissioned=[[14 September]] [[1920]]
|Ship decommissioned=[[6 June]] [[1922]]
|Ship in service=
|Ship out of service=
|Ship captured=
|Ship fate=Transferred to [[United States Coast Guard|USCG]], [[1930]]
|Ship career 2=yes
|Ship country 2=(USCG)
|Ship flag 2=[[Image:Cgshield.png|40px|USCG Shield]]
|Ship christened 2=
|Ship purchased 2=[[1930]]
|Ship commissioned 2=[[7 March]] [[1931]]
|Ship decommissioned 2=[[28 May]] [[1934]]
|Ship in service 2=
|Ship out of service 2=
|Ship renamed 2=
|Ship reclassified 2=
|Ship captured 2=
|Ship struck 2=
|Ship reinstated 2=
|Ship fate 2=Returned to Navy, [[1934]]
|Ship career 3=yes
|Ship country 3=
|Ship flag 3=[[Image:Naval Jack of the United States.svg|48px|USN Jack]]
|Ship christened 3=
|Ship purchased 3=[[1934]]
|Ship commissioned 3=[[4 December]] [[1939]]
|Ship decommissioned 3=[[9 September]] [[1940]]
|Ship in service 3=
|Ship out of service 3=
|Ship renamed 3=
|Ship reclassified 3=
|Ship captured 3=
|Ship struck 3=
|Ship reinstated 3=
|Ship fate 3=Transferred to [[United Kingdom|U.K.]], <br/>[[9 September]] [[1940]]
|Ship career 4=yes
|Ship country 4=(U.K.)
|Ship flag 4=[[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|60px|Royal Navy Ensign]]
|Ship christened 4=
|Ship purchased 4=[[9 September]] [[1940]]
|Ship commissioned 4=[[9 September]] [[1940]]
|Ship decommissioned 4=
|Ship in service 4=
|Ship out of service 4=
|Ship renamed 4=
|Ship reclassified 4=
|Ship captured 4=
|Ship struck 4=
|Ship reinstated 4=
|Ship fate 4=Transferred to [[Soviet Union|USSR]], <br/>[[16 July]] [[1944]]
|Ship career 5=yes
|Ship country 5=(USSR)
|Ship flag 5=[[Image:Naval Ensign of the Soviet Union.svg|48px|Soviet Naval Ensign]]
|Ship christened 5=
|Ship purchased 5=[[16 July]] [[1944]]
|Ship commissioned 5=
|Ship decommissioned 5=
|Ship in service 5=
|Ship out of service 5=
|Ship renamed 5=
|Ship reclassified 5=
|Ship captured 5=
|Ship struck 5=
|Ship reinstated 5=
|Ship fate 5=Sunk in action, <br/>[[16 January]] [[1945]]
|Ship struck=
|Ship reinstated=
|Ship homeport=
|Ship displacement=1,190 tons
|Ship length=314 ft 5 in (95.8 m)
|Ship beam=31 ft 9 in (9.7 m)
|Ship draught=9 ft 4 in (2.8 m)
|Ship propulsion=26,500 SHP (20 MW); <br/>geared turbines, <br/>2 screws
|Ship speed=35 knots (65 km/h)
|Ship range=4,900 [[Nautical mile|nmi]] (9,100 km) <br/>  @ 15 [[knot (speed)|kt]]
|Ship endurance=
|Ship test depth=
|Ship capacity=
|Ship complement=122 officers and enlisted
|Ship time to activate=
|Ship sensors=
|Ship EW=
|Ship armament=4 × 4 in/50 (102 mm) guns, <br/>3 × 3 in/23 (76 mm) guns, <br/>12 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes.
|Ship armour=
|Ship aircraft=
|Ship motto=
|Ship nickname=
|}}

Career (USN)
Laid down:	25 November 1918
Launched:	31 May 1919
Commissioned:	14 September 1920
Decommissioned:	6 June 1922
Fate:	Transferred to USCG, 1930
Career (USCG)
Acquired:	1930
Commissioned:	7 March 1931
Decommissioned:	28 May 1934
Fate:	Returned to Navy, 1934
Career
Acquired:	1934
Commissioned:	4 December 1939
Decommissioned:	9 September 1940
Fate:	Transferred to U.K., 9 September 1940
Career (U.K.)
Acquired:	9 September 1940
Commissioned:	9 September 1940
Fate:	Transferred to USSR, 16 July 1944
Career (USSR)
Acquired:	16 July 1944
Fate:	Sunk in action, 16 January 1945
General Characteristics
Displacement:	1,190 tons
Length:	314 ft 5 in (95.8 m)
Beam:	31 ft 9 in (9.7 m)
Draught:	9 ft 4 in (2.8 m)
Propulsion and power:	26,500 SHP (20 MW); geared turbines, 2 screws
Speed:	35 knots (65 km/h)
Range:	4,900 nmi (9,100 km)   @ 15 kt
Complement:	122 officers and enlisted
Armament:	4 × 4 in/50 (102 mm) guns, 3 × 3 in/23 (76 mm) guns, 12 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes.