EP 1130-2-500
27 Dec 96
(20) The information contained in EM 1110-2-3400 and other pertinent publications
should be used to assist in the selection of an appropriate paint system. Paint ingredients may be
varied as experience dictates because of climate conditions but final color should match the
referenced color spots and supplemental color chips.
Section II. Floating Plant Identification And Record Information
7-8. Purpose. This section establishes guidance for naming, marking, and recording items of
Corps of Engineers floating plant.
7-9. Guidance.
a. Names, Numbers or Other Identifications of Floating Plant.
(1) Recommendations for proposed identification will provide at least one and preferably
two alternate selections. Adequate basic biographical or other data will be furnished for each
selection submitted. Without exception, no item of floating plant will be named in honor of a
living person. Ordinarily, only numerical designations will be assigned to barges, scows, flats and
minor item of plant such as small boats, skiffs, etc.
(a) Preference will be given to names of deceased officers and employees of the Corps of
Engineers, or to waterways or other geographical features of regions in which the items of
floating plant are to operate, or historical names directly connected therewith.
(b) Ordinarily, when the name of a deceased person is to be assigned, the use of the
surname only is desirable. This view is based on the facts that the surname usually identifies
adequately the person so memorialized, simplifies correspondence, reduces upkeep, is easier to
comprehend, and assigned full names are rarely utilized in references. Also, the military title held
by the deceased person so honored may differ at the time of his/her death from that held when
he/she was associated with the locality in which the craft is to be employed.
(2) Historical or geographical names for items of floating plant will be confined to single
words wherever practicable. Names which are unwieldy or uncommonly long or which consist of
combinations which include physical features such "River", "Bay", "Point", etc., will be avoided.
(3) Whenever an item of floating plant is renamed or renumbered, all official
correspondence referring to the vessel will include both the revised and former name or number
for a period of 5 years following date of redesignation. One copy of the approving or assigning
document, or the notification of assignment of each vessel designation will be furnished the
Commander, HQUSACE, Attention: CECW-OD.
(4) When a newly acquired floating plant item is to carry a name identical to that of the
plant which it replaces, the name will be followed by a dash and appropriate Roman Numeral to
indicate that it is a replacement, i.e., IOWA-II would be the name for a vessel replacing one
named IOWA.
(5) Duplications or close similarities with existing names will be avoided. District
Commanders are authorized to assign numbers or combinations of numbers and letters consistent
with a uniform numbering procedure for minor items of plant.
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