Site Conventions

Throughout the site, certain conventions, or standards, are used for consistency. In general, this applies to units of measurement (dates, times, lengths) and to link styles. These are described here.

Dates

Throughout the site, dates will be given in military format, 'day month year', as in "6 June 1944". Leading zeroes will not be used. Two dates divided by a slash, such as 1/2 Jan 1900, indicate the night between the two days. Actions occurring over several days will be indicated by a dash; 1-3 Jan 1900.

Abbreviations of month names will always be the first three letters of the name - JAN, FEB, MAR, etc.

Years may be abbreviated to the last two digits - "44" for 1944, for example.

Time

Times are given in the 24-hour military clock. Times are always spoken in full, thus 3 o'clock in the morning becomes oh-three-hundred while 3 o'clock in the afternoon is fifteen-hundred. This applies even when it sounds odd - 10 am and 8 pm are ten-hundred and twenty-hundred respectively, not one-thousand and two-thousand. The hour between midnight and oh-one-hundred is the zero hour; 14 minutes after midnight is oh-oh-fourteen or zero-zero-fourteen. Midnight itself is usually referred to as twenty-four-hundred, although oh-oh-oh-oh is also technically correct (but rarely, if ever, used).

Morning/Day Hours		Evening/Night Hours
Civilian	Military	Civilian	Military
1 am	0100	1 pm	1300
2 am	0200	2 pm	1400
3 am	0300	3 pm	1500
4 am	0400	4 pm	1600
5 am	0500	5 pm	1700
6 am	0600	6 pm	1800
7 am	0700	7 pm	1900
8 am	0800	8 pm	2000
9 am	0900	9 pm	2100
10 am	1000	10 pm	2200
11 am	1100	11 pm	2300
Noon	1200	Midnight	2400/0000

Distance

Distance is usually referred to in standard miles, rather than nautical miles (nm) or kilometers (km). The table below shows the equivalent lengths.

Unit	Length in feet	Miles	Nautical Miles	Kilometers
Mile (mi)	5,280	1	0.87	1.61
Nautical Mile (nm)	6,076.12	1.15	1	1.85
Kilometer (km)	3,280.84	0.62	0.54	1

Ship speeds are referred to in "knots", abbreviated kt. 1 knot is one nautical mile per hour. A ship moving at 33 knots is moving at just under 38 miles per hour (mph), or just over 61 kilometers per hour (km/h or kph).

Length

Most measurements are given in the Standard system of feet and inches. Where necessary, metric units have been converted into standard using the on-line unit conversion utility at OnlineConversion.com.

Unit	Inch	Feet	Yard	Millimeter	Centimeter	Meters
Inch (in)	1	.083	-	25.4	2.54	-
Foot (ft)	12	1	0.333	304.8	30.48	0.31
Yard (yd)	36	3	1	914.4	91.44	.9144
Millimeter (mm)	0.03937	-	-	1	.1	.001
Centimeter (cm)	0.3937	0.0328	0.010936	10	1	.01
Meter (m)	39.37	3.2808	1.0936	1000	100	1

Links

Links, both to other sections of The Carrier Project and to off-site resources, are liberally scattered throught the pages of the site. They may be identified in several ways. All links will open in the current browser window, unless the user selects another option.

Text Links

In the text, links are in bold lettering, which will turn gold on black when selected. Ship or class names in bold black italics will link to the appropriate Other Ships entry about that ship or class. Names or classes of United States carriers, of course, will link to the appropriate Carrier Project page.

Bar links

Battle off Samar

A bar (of any size or color) with a blue button on the left is a link. The button will turn gold when the link is selected; the text area will turn gold on black. This type of link is most often used in menus and lists. Bar links may also include icons (see below) to indicate the source or type of material being linked to. The example at left leads to this site's page about the Battle off Samar.

Image links

Images with blue outlines are links. The outline will turn gold when selected. This link will lead either to a larger version of the image or to a webpage with additional information about the event depicted. The image at left, for example, leads to the U.S. Navy official home page.

Icons

Icons may be associated with links. The icon usually indicates the type or destination of the link.

	The globe indicates a link to an article on the World Wide Web.		The small Wikipedia globe is a link to an appropriate Wikipedia article.
	The IMDB logo links to an Internet Movie Data Base entry about a relevant motion picture or documentary.		The camera symbol indicates a link to a photograph or other graphic image.
	The film icon indicates a link to an animation of some kind; an animated GIF, an AVI or MPG file, etc.		The speaker icon indicates a link to an audio file, usually a WAV or MID file.
	The Adobe PDF icon indicates a link to a PDF-format file.		A national flag associated with a link indicates an official government website; in this case, a British site.

Icons may be grouped. For example, this - FDR, 8 Dec 41

- would indicate a sound file located at Wikipedia.

Icons may also be used independently, without a link name or associated text. The example above could also be rendered as "President Roosevelt's speech on 8 December 1941

was a call to arms." In this case, the icon itself is the link.

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