  :: I agree with the house policy. The first time a ship is mentioned it's USS Shipname, after that it's common to refer to her by her name, and often her nickname. If were are talking about something formal, then you revert to USS Shipname. Also the title of the article correct, but the text is not. A ship's class never starts with USS. The USS is a formal designator meant to show commissioned US Navy ships. This is the second time I have seen this done on Wiki. The first time was with the midget submarine X-1 which was never commissioned (the CNO would never let something like that get commissioned because it counts against his total ship count). 