CONVERSIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS
Conversions
1 nautical mile = 2,025 yards, 1,852 meters, or 1.151 statute miles
1 knot = 1.852 km/hour or 1.151 statute mile/hour
1 meter = 1.094 yards
1 yard = 0.9144 meters
1 centimeter = 0.3937 inches
1 inch = 2.54 centimeters
1 kilogram = 2.205 pounds
1 pound = 0.4536 kilograms
1 tonne = 0.9842 long tons
1 long ton = 1.016 tonnes
Abbreviations
General
AA |
antiair, antiaircraft |
ABDA |
American-British-Dutch-Australian |
ACNS |
assistant chiefs of the naval staff |
AG |
antenna galvanic |
AP |
armor-piercing |
A/S |
antisubmarine |
ASV |
air-surface vessel (radar) |
ASW |
antisubmarine warfare |
BCRA |
bureau central de renseignements et d’action |
CEPSM |
Comission d’Etudes Pratiques des Sous-Marins |
CIG |
centre d’information gouvernemental |
CINCUS |
Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet |
COMINCH |
Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet |
CSDN |
Conseil Supérieur de la Défense Nationale |
DC |
depth charge |
DCT |
depth-charge thrower |
DEA |
Deutsche Erdöl AG |
DEM |
détecteur électro-magnétique |
EMG/2 |
Etat-Major/Deuxième Bureau |
FAA |
Fleet Air Arm (British) |
FHM |
Forces de Haute Mer |
FMF |
Fleet Marine Force |
FMF/2 |
Forces Maritimes Françaises/Deuxième Bureau |
Forces Navales d’Extrême-Orient |
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FNFL |
Free French Naval Forces |
GDP |
gross domestic product |
GHG |
Gruppenhorchgerät |
GRT |
gross registered tons |
HA |
high angle |
HO |
hostilities only |
IGHQ |
Imperial General Headquarters |
KB |
Korabelnaia bolshaia |
KGB |
Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti |
NCO |
noncommissioned officer |
NID |
Naval Intelligence Division |
NKVD |
Narodny komissariat vnutrennih del |
NGS |
Naval General Staff |
NROTC |
Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps |
OIC |
Operational Intelligence Centre |
OKH |
Oberkommando des Heeres |
OKL |
Oberkommando der Luftwaffe |
OKM |
Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine |
OKW |
Oberbefehlshaber der Wehrmacht |
OLS |
Detachment of Light Forces |
ONI |
Office of Naval Intelligence |
OPL |
Optique de Précision Levallois-Perret |
RAF |
Royal Air Force |
RDF |
radio-direction finding |
RN |
Royal Navy |
RNR |
Royal Naval Reserve |
RNVR |
Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve |
SAR |
search and rescue |
SG |
Seeaufklärungsgruppe |
SIS |
Servizio Informazione Segreto (Italy) |
SIS |
Secret Intelligence Service (Britain) |
SLC |
siluro a lenta corsa |
SOM |
Société d’Optique et de Méchanique de Haute Précision |
STCN |
Service Technique des Constructions Navales |
TBS |
Talk Between Ships |
TPA |
telefono per ammiragli |
UAS |
U-Boot-Abwehr-Schule |
USN |
United States Navy |
VHF |
very high freqency |
Voenno-morskie Sily Raboche-krestianskoi Krasnoi Armii |
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VT |
variable time |
WRNS |
Women’s Royal Naval Service (“Wrens”) |
Ship Types
BAMS |
British and Allied Merchant Ship |
BB |
battleship |
BC |
battle cruiser |
BM |
monitor |
CA |
heavy cruiser |
CAM |
catapult-armed merchant ship |
CL |
light cruiser |
CLA |
antiaircraft light cruiser |
CV |
aircraft carrier |
CVE |
escort carrier |
DC |
corvette |
DD |
destroyer |
DE |
destroyer escort |
DF |
frigate |
DMS |
fast minelayer |
DS |
sloop/escort |
FCS |
fighter catapult ship |
GS |
guard ship (Soviet sloop) |
LCT |
landing craft, tank |
LST |
landing ship, tank |
LVT |
landing vehicle, tracked |
MAC |
merchant aircraft carrier |
MAS |
Italian motor torpedo boat (motoscafi armati siluranti or motoscafi anti sommergibili) |
MFP |
marinefährprahm (German armed barge or “F” lighter) |
MGB |
motor gunboat |
ML |
minelayer or motor launch |
MTB |
motor torpedo boat |
PG |
gunboat (USN) |
PT |
patrol torpedo boat (USN) |
S-boat |
schnellboot (German motor torpedo boat or “E” boat) |
SS |
submarine |
TB |
torpedo boat |
U-boat |
unterseeboot (German submarine) |
UJ-boat |
unterseebootsjäger (German submarine chaser) |