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<p>system that the <a href="page.php?w=Royal_Navy">Royal Navy</a> and other European and <a href="page.php?w=Commonwealth_of_Nations">Commonwealth</a> navies use.</p>

<p><big> History </big></p>
<p><big> United States Navy </big></p>
<p>The U.S. Navy began to assign unique <a href="page.php?w=Naval_Registry_Identification_Number">Naval Registry Identification Number</a>s to its ships in the 1890s. The system was a simple one in which each ship received a number which was appended to its ship type, fully spelled out, and added parenthetically after the ship's name</p><p>
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