Vessel prefixes
MV — Motor Vessel
The most mundane civilian prefix — working freighters, tugs, tenders, independent traders. A hull with no pretension, under a Master or a skipper. No ship carrying it has appeared in print yet.
Table
Vessel prefixes
Stands for
Motor Vessel
Operator
Civilian / mercantile
Canon status
Confirmed
About the vessel prefixes
A hull's prefix says who flags it, not what it does — the same class of ship can carry different prefixes depending on which body registered it. The institutional prefixes come first, then the civilian conventions of the later era, then the hulls that answer to nobody.