Editing Ship class (section)

===Europe in general===
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In European navies, a class is named after the first ship commissioned regardless of when it was ordered or laid down. In some cases this has resulted in different class names being used in European and U.S. references; for example, European sources record the {{sclass|Colorado|battleship}}s of the [[United States Navy]] as the "''Maryland'' class", as {{USS|Maryland|BB-46|6}} was commissioned before {{USS|Colorado|BB-45|6}}.{{Citation needed|date=June 2015}}{{contradict-inline|date=July 2018}}