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A Ship Box or Ship infobox is a type of infobox that lists certain aspects of a ship such as its name and its affiliation. Here is how one can create a Ship info box and its various manipulations. Please note the following infoboxes here are only used for display purposes. They are here in order to give a visual aid of how the function is done and thus they may contain wrong content on the actual ships themselves.

Basics
First off add the following code at the top of the ship page. This is the most basic structure of the Ship Infobox.

From here you can fill in the blanks in order to customize the box and make it look better. Just simply type the things you want to add after the equal sign.


 * 1) backcolor and textcolor: Here you can add the Hex Triplet values so the text and background color of the ship's name can be changed so that it could match it's group affiliation color.
 * 2) name: Here you should add the name of the ship.
 * 3) image: Here you should add an image of the ship.
 * 4) names: Here you can add the other names of the ship such as how it is written in japanese, how it is romanized, and how it is called in any English versions.
 * 5) affltion: Here you should add the affiliation the ship belongs to if it has one.
 * 6) first: Here you should add when the ship first appeared.

Values 1-3, 5 and 6 are the easiest to do and you can do something like this. The rest however are little more versatile and needs a slight more tweaking.

Advanced Values
The value 'names' is a little more advanced than the others due to some ships having different attributes than others. Here's how to apply them.

Names Value
Due to some ships having no specific given names. The names value can simply be left blank. However to add these values, here's how. First apply the following code described above but then change it something like this.

Here you are given the three necessary values to add the different names.


 * 1) jname: Here you can add how the name of the ship was written in it's original japanese text.
 * 2) rname: Here you can add how the name is romanized.
 * 3) ename: Here you can add how the name is commonly called by English speakers or in any English version should they exist.

With these values, you can make something like this.

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Combinations
With the following instructions above, you can thus make a complete Ship Infobox by combining the codes together in various ways to present the information. Here are a couple of examples.

Named Movie Ship
Here is an infobox about a ship that only appeared in a movie. It has a name that has been clearly spoken out.

Unnamed Recurring Ship
Here is a recurring ship that apparently is frequently seen. It however has no proper name to speak of as of yet and is thus called by who owns it and what the ship closely resembles.