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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Then names are assigned by SH3 Commander after the patrol is done.
Merchant ships didn't carry names on the hulls during wartime, so that works out quite well. Sometimes a kaleun could get the name from the survivors, but like as not the claimed sinking had to be compared with what ships were missing after the convoy reached port. What we have is the best SH3 can do, and compared to how many mistakes were made in real life, it's not too bad at all.
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Ah, well that's true enough, I hadn't even thought about all the times I've read about a commander having to question survivors to find out what ship he just sank. So it wouldn't really make sense to have that info readily available in-game just by reading it off the hull.