On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:10:46 -0600, Ian MacLure wrote:

Indeed.
And then there are the folks, who refer to what might rate
as an FFG only by courtesy, as a "battleship".

They are simply taking ' battleship' to mean 'ship for battle'.
Warship in other words. Not as important to get it right, now that all
the proper BB have gone.

Casady