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The ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' (''DANFS'' for short) is the official reference work for the basic facts about ships used by the United States Navy. In addition to the ship entries, ''DANFS'' includes appendices on small craft, histories of Confederate Navy ships, and various essays related to naval ships. When the writing project was developed the parameters for this series were designed to cover only commissioned US Navy ships with assigned names. If the ship was not assigned a name it was not included in the histories written for the series. ==Publication data== ''DANFS'' was published in print by the Naval Historical Center (NHC) as bound hardcover volumes, ordered by ship name, from Volume I (A–B) in 1959 to Volume VIII (W–Z) in 1981. Several volumes subsequently went out of print. In 1991 a revised ''Volume I Part A'', covering only ship names beginning with A, was released. Work continues on revisions of the remaining volumes. Volunteers at the (Hazegray website ) undertook to transcribe the ''DANFS'' and make it available on the World Wide Web. The project goal is a direct transcription of the ''DANFS'', with changes limited to correcting typographical errors and editorial notes for incorrect facts in the original. In 2008 the NHC was re-designated as the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC). It has developed an online version of ''DANFS'' through a combination of optical character recognition (OCR) and hand transcription. The NHHC is slowly updating its online ''DANFS'' to correct errors and take into account the gap in time between the print publication and the present date. NHHC prioritizes updates as follows: ships currently commissioned, ships commissioned after the original volume publication, ships decommissioned after original volume publication, and finally updates to older ships. The NHHC has begun a related project to place Ship History and Command Operations Reports online at their ''DANFS'' site. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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