good topic...
this is something i was working on for a full day Tuesday as i had downloaded a lot of ships and seen some had entries for the Englishname folder and some didn't. so i went back and cross reference the hole sea folder with the englishname folder and added the ship names to the englishname folder. after i did that the ships began to show up regularly as far as the merchant shipping go's. as for the war ships i haven't seen a one yet so im not so clear on that part...
example
seeing as there is battleships in SH3 like King George V Battleship, and in the englishname folder its named BBKingGeorgeV=King George V Battleship, and you added a battleship lets say the Battle Ship Iowa and made it a British battle ship and added the englishname folder as BBIowa=Battle Ship Iowa Class, since both are BB's will the game just go grab a battleship and maybe there is a chance it could be the Iowa or is it scripted to go find the King George in a task force only...