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Originally Posted by Reece
I think that the englishnames.cfg is used by the recognition manual displaying the name of the ship, for example:
HSL=Hospital Ship will display "Hospital Ship", if no entry "HSL" will be displayed, however this is a only guess! 
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its used for displaying the vessel type names in the UI (periscopes or uzo), after identifying a vessel. This file was also often modded to prevent automaticaly displaying something in the UI vessel name field, if you turn your uzo or peri crosshair over a vessel, normaly out of visual sight.