Template:Warship/doc

Usage
This is a typing short cut for linking to warship articles named in the format "Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (1914)". Since Ship names are italicized in article text, linking to them in the usual manner means typing everything twice, such as Russian battleship Petropavlovsk. This template approximately halves that to.

Formal usage
, where ID can be the hull number, launch year, or pennant number, as specified in the article title.