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* Often, store bought ship models are simply a generic ship of the hull type with different numbers put on the decal strip.
** Though this is rarely true of capital ship models, since these are sufficiently high-profile that people will be interested in buying specific ones. It is, however, often the case that the kit will reflect an odd mish-mash of equipment fits from throughout the ship's service life rather than the ship at a particular set point in time. Which is why aftermarket parts exist.
* Any documentary about WWI and WWII combat suffers from the absolute dearth of interesting stock footage (photographs are in better supply). Reasonably savvy history buffs can generally tell you exactly what ship you are seeing (and often enough, when the footage was shot). General rule, if the battleship has triple turrets and is rolling over slowly that's ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWO-AUI8HDE Szent Istvan]'' an Austro-Hungarian ship from WWI (sunk by Italian torpedo boats). If the ship finishes turning over and then explodes, that's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HSY94QVIss HMS
* The museum ship HMS ''Belfast'', moored in the River Thames, has its 1950s weapons layout, but its D-Day paint scheme. This was deliberate, but still annoys some people.
* John Winton's novel ''Aircraft Carrier'' combines this trope with [[Just Plane Wrong]]: the fictitious HMS ''Furious'' (probably based on the real HMS ''Hermes'') defends itself against enemy missile attacks with 60s-vintage Seacat missiles (good in their day, but by no means an adequate anti-missile defense even in the 1980s) and 40mm Bofors guns (only an adequate anti-missile defense if Lady Luck is at the controls) while the Sea Harriers of its air group carry AMRAAM missiles. By the time AMRAAM was available to the Fleet Air Arm, 20mm Phalanx anti-missile guns and the much superior Seawolf point defense missile would have been available to a fictitious aircraft carrier.
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* One of the most aggravating conventions in some circles is to have a sailing ship referred to as a pirate ship, even if it is a coal-hauler no doubt. Attention, piracy is not a generic term for [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men]]. Piracy is armed robbery that happens to take place at sea.
*Another even more common one is to refer to a ship as a boat. Ships are ships. Boats are little watercraft that are small enough to be contained in ships. Of course there are ambiguities which are hard to get right. For instance submarines were always called boats because they were once thought of as another kind of torpedo boat, or something like that, and they remain "boats" even when some of them are now capable of blowing up the world. Nevertheless know the difference. Using the word boat for a ship will mark you at once as a member of the [[Acceptable Targets|never-sufficiently-despised]] breed known as ''landlubbers''.
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