• {{navsource|URLcode|Shipname}} where URLcode is extracted from the navsource.com URL (see below) and Shipname is the optional, unformatted name of the ship.

To obtain the URLcode parameter value:

1. Find the navsource.com url.

   The url for the USS Houston (CL-81) navsource page is http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/081/04081.htm

2. The URLcode parameter value is that part of the URL between archives/ and .htm

   In this example you would use 04/081/04081

This optional parameter provides the name of the ship in the rendered link. If omitted or left blank, the template uses the current page name in the link. If Shipname parameter is one of the standard forms <prefix> <name> <disambiguator>; <prefix> <name>; or <name> <disambiguator>; or <name> where <name> is part of the article title; then {{navsource}} will apply proper formatting to Shipname.

When {{navsource}} cannot figure out how to format Shipname, it will return the Shipname in its original format along with an error message that may help to get the name right. If the name render's as you think it should add the parameter |showerrs=no to disable the error message.