Talk:Auxiliary ship

The AGTR and AGER
These ships did not carry out research unless you count one officer on each ship who was there to provide cover, they were intelligence collection platforms administered by the Naval Security Group on behalf of the National Security Agency and it probably should be stated here instead of the often repeated cover story. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.116.151.63 (talk) 23:05, 10 February 2019 (UTC)


 * This page is about ship classification. Your feedback should go on the pages about these types of ships. Thank you for the feedback. Telecine Guy (talk) 20:30, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Source needed - this seems to be a key naval term
Dear wikipedians: this seems to be an important naval term, but is totally unsourced. I noticed that there is a "Category:Auxiliary ships" and another very similar "Category:Service vessels". I tried to find online a definition to ascertain which one is correct, the other can be merged into it, but the only "encyclopedic definition" I found was this one in Wikipedia. Can anyone please help resolving this by providing a verifiable source for this definition? Thanks & regards, DPdH (talk) 02:06, 14 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Fixed, Thank you Telecine Guy (talk) 00:07, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Multiple issues
The grammar/wording in this article; The lack of citations; Worldwide view
 * This allow the fleet..., random capitalisation Rescue and salvage ship and Submarine rescue ship (ASR) for surface support ship for ship and submarine rescue. Hospital ships are able to provide medical care in remote locations to personnel.
 * The entire "Support" section. The first paragraph of harbor.
 * eg. Transport ships are often converted merchant ships simply commissioned (APA, APD, APH, APV) into naval service. - Those are entirely American designations.

None of these issues have been fixed so the tags remain. A general excise of the American designations would also be worthwhile and a link to Hull classification symbol would be more appropriate to cut down on the laser focus of this article on US naval designations.Llammakey (talk) 15:32, 11 January 2023 (UTC)