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Portugal (POR) Ship Namelists

Source file: common/units/names_ships/POR_ship_names.txt

Overview

The Portuguese Navy (Marinha Portuguesa), operating under the Navio da República Portuguesa (NRP) prefix adopted after the 1910 revolution, drew on centuries of Age-of-Discovery seafaring tradition alongside a modest but persistent interwar modernization effort. The 1912 Naval Program envisioned dreadnoughts, scout cruisers, destroyers and submarines but was cut back sharply after only a year; the more modest 1930 Programa Naval, carried out under Navy Minister Aníbal de Mesquita Guimarães from 1932, delivered the Vouga-class river-named destroyers, Delfim-class marine-life-named submarines, and navigator-named avisos that anchor this mod's destroyer and escort roster. Portugal remained neutral for most of World War II but maintained a colonial navy spanning Angola, Mozambique, Portuguese Guinea, Cape Verde, São Tomé e Príncipe, Goa, Macau and Timor, giving its heavy cruiser doctrine a distinctly imperial character.

In vanilla Hearts of Iron IV, the Portuguese namelist file suffered from a severe content-integrity bug well beyond a simple copy-paste error:

  • Mislabeled & Foreign Content: The file's header comment read ##### ARGENTINA NAME LISTS #####, and its battleship roster (POR_BB_HISTORICAL) was not Argentine or Portuguese — it was a near-complete list of real Brazilian Navy ship/state names (Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Santa Catarina [duplicated], Rio de Janeiro, Maranhão, and 20 more Brazilian states), likely because the real 1912 Portuguese dreadnought program was informally called the "Minas Gerais type" after the Brazilian design it copied.
  • Verbatim Cross-Class Cloning: POR_CL_HISTORICAL and POR_CA_HISTORICAL shared an identical 6-name roster, leaving light and heavy cruisers indistinguishable in the Ship Designer.
  • Missing Diacritics & Typos: Names like "Tamega", "Nazare", "Marinha Granda", "Principe Real" and the anglicized "St Sebastiao" were missing accents or misspelled.
  • Mistranslated Fallback: The battlecruiser fallback "Cuzador Couraçado %d" was both a typo and a mistranslation — cruzador couraçado means armoured cruiser, not battlecruiser.
  • Word-Order Calque: The vanilla battlecruiser entry "Novo Estado" inverted the real Estado Novo regime name.
  • Severe Depth Deficits: All hulls fell far short of ISNE's tiered depth standards (13 destroyers, 11 submarines, 6 cruisers of each type, 3 battlecruisers), and no universal thematic pools existed.

Immersive Ship Names Expanded provides complete, historically and linguistically authentic namelists for Portugal, featuring 7 expanded ship-type specific groups (431 names) and 7 universal thematic/ideological pools for the Ship Designer, fully decoupled with zero cross-class name collisions. Destroyers draw on the historical river-naming tradition (contratorpedeiro) alongside Age-of-Discovery navigators and 19th-20th century naval officers; submarines continue the authentic marine-life tradition; light cruisers cover metropolitan and island ports, while heavy cruisers cover the colonial empire's ports (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea, Cape Verde, São Tomé, Goa, Macau, Timor); battleships draw on sovereignty symbols, historical provinces and founding monarchs; battlecruisers draw on Age-of-Discovery flagships, decisive naval battles and colonial fortresses; and carriers draw on naval aviation pioneers and celestial navigation terminology. All ships carry the historical prefix NRP (Navio da República Portuguesa), matching vanilla convention.

Namelist Groups

Ship-Type Specific Category

Group Tag Type Ship Types Sample Names
POR_DD_HISTORICAL Destroyers & Escorts ship_hull_light destroyer Douro, Tâmega, Vouga, Lima, Dão, Tejo, Lis, Guadiana, Zambeze, Limpopo, Gil Eanes, Nuno Tristão, Diogo Cão, Bartolomeu Dias, Afonso de Albuquerque, Dom Francisco de Almeida, Carvalho Araújo, Ferreira do Amaral
POR_SS_HISTORICAL Submarines ship_hull_submarine submarine Delfim, Espadarte, Golfinho, Narval, Náutilo, Albacora, Barracuda, Cachalote, Tubarão, Orca, Baleia, Atum, Robalo, Polvo, Lagosta
POR_CL_HISTORICAL Light Cruisers ship_hull_cruiser light_cruiser Matosinhos, Vila Nova de Gaia, Figueira da Foz, Marinha Grande, Nazaré, Setúbal, Sesimbra, Faro, Lagos, Funchal, Ponta Delgada, Angra do Heroísmo
POR_CA_HISTORICAL Heavy Cruisers & Coastal Defense ship_hull_cruiser heavy_cruiser Luanda, Lobito, Benguela, Lourenço Marques, Beira, Ilha de Moçambique, Bissau, Cidade de São Tomé, Nova Goa, Macau, Díli, Ceuta, Mombaça
POR_BB_HISTORICAL Battleships ship_hull_heavy battleship Portugal, Lusitânia, Restauração, Entre-Douro-e-Minho, Beira Alta, Estremadura, Algarve, Açores, Madeira, Angola, Moçambique, Lisboa, Porto, Afonso Henriques, Dom Manuel I, Infante Dom Henrique
POR_BC_HISTORICAL Battlecruisers ship_hull_heavy battle_cruiser São Gabriel, São Rafael, Bérrio, Flor de la Mar, Príncipe Real, Vasco da Gama, Diu, Goa, Malaca, Cabo de São Vicente, São Jorge da Mina, Sagres, Mazagão
POR_CV_HISTORICAL Aircraft Carriers ship_hull_carrier carrier Gago Coutinho, Sacadura Cabral, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Pátria, Santa Cruz, Argos, Alverca, Amadora, Cruzeiro do Sul, Estrela Polar, Astrolábio, Rosa dos Ventos, Aurora

Universal Thematic Topic Category (Ship Designer)

Universal selection pools available for any ship hull or squadron:

Group Tag Topic Name Ship Types Sample Names
POR_BIRDS Birds Universal Águia-Real, Falcão-Peregrino, Milhafre, Grifo, Bufo-Real, Coruja, Gaivota, Albatroz, Cagarra, Garça, Cegonha, Flamingo, Rouxinol, Pega-Azul
POR_AQUATIC Aquatic Life Universal Faneca, Abrótea, Boga, Salema, Estrela-do-Mar, Búzio, Caranguejo, Amêijoa, Mexilhão, Ostra, Percebe, Camarão, Vieira, Água-Viva
POR_LEGENDS Legends Universal Endovélico, Ataegina, Luso, Ulisses, Adamastor, Tágides, Encoberto, Desejado, Quinto Império, Bandarra, Moura Encantada, Lobisomem, Galo de Barcelos, Antília, Sete Cidades
POR_HEROES Heroes Universal Camões, Fernando Pessoa, Gil Vicente, Alexandre Herculano, Eça de Queirós, Garcia de Orta, Marquês de Pombal, Egas Moniz, Inês de Castro, Mouzinho de Albuquerque, Serpa Pinto
POR_VIRTUES Virtues & Traditions Universal Honra, Glória, Lealdade, Coragem, Fé, Vitória, Fortaleza, Perseverança, Intrépido, Destemido, Invicta, Vingança, Minerva
POR_MONARCHS Monarchs Universal Dom Sancho I, Dom Afonso IV, Dom Pedro I, Dom Duarte, Dom Sebastião, Dom João IV, Dom José I, Dona Maria I, Dom Pedro IV, Dom Luís I, Dom Carlos I, Rainha Dona Amélia
POR_ESTADO_NOVO Estado Novo Universal Estado Novo, Revolução Nacional, Vinte e Oito de Maio, Império, Ultramar, Acto Colonial, Mundo Português, Mocidade Portuguesa, Gomes da Costa, Marechal Carmona, Américo Tomás

Historical Notes & Vanilla Fixes

  • Content-Integrity Purge: The vanilla header's false "ARGENTINA NAME LISTS" claim was corrected, and all 25 unique real Brazilian Navy ship/state names (26 entries, including one duplicate) in the battleship roster were purged and replaced with authentic Portuguese sovereignty symbols, historical provinces, overseas territories and founding monarchs.
  • Cross-Class Decoupling: POR_CL_HISTORICAL (metropolitan/island ports) and POR_CA_HISTORICAL (colonial/imperial ports) were split into fully independent rosters; POR_BB_HISTORICAL (sovereignty/provinces/founders) and POR_BC_HISTORICAL (Age-of-Discovery flagships/naval battles/fortresses) follow distinct doctrines per ISNE's Capital Ship Doctrine Specialization standard. Verified with zero overlapping names across CL/CA/BB/BC/CV via an automated set-intersection check.
  • Diacritic & Spelling Restoration: Fixed Tamega→Tâmega, Nazare→Nazaré, Marinha Granda→Marinha Grande, Principe Real→Príncipe Real, and dropped the anglicized St Sebastiao in favor of proper Portuguese forms.
  • Fallback Terminology: Corrected the vanilla battlecruiser fallback "Cuzador Couraçado %d" (a typo for armoured cruiser, not battlecruiser) to the authentic term "Cruzador de Batalha %d". Battleship fallback uses the European Portuguese "Couraçado %d", deliberately distinct from ISNE_BRA's Brazilian Portuguese "Encouraçado %d".
  • Word-Order Calque: Vanilla's inverted "Novo Estado" was corrected to the real regime name "Estado Novo" and relocated to the dedicated POR_ESTADO_NOVO ideological pool.
  • Prefix: Retained vanilla's NRP (Navio da República Portuguesa) prefix for parity across all groups, including the new thematic pools.
  • Scope Note: This pass authors a moderate set of 7 universal thematic pools (author decision), consolidating colonial content into the CA roster rather than a separate pool. A future expansion could add the dossier-supported Cities, Islands, Landmarks, Battles, Elements, Republic (First Republic, 1910-26), Monarchism (restoration path) and Socialism (PCP/CGT labor movement) pools without touching the ship-type specific groups. POR_ESTADO_NOVO deliberately excludes the sitting dictator's personal name (Salazar) and the Tarrafal concentration camp, using regime concepts, events and non-contentious figures instead — an intentionally shorter, authenticity-first roster rather than one padded to the general 35-60 thematic target.

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