WARSHIP NOMENCLATURE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1947, 2 January 1914, Page 9

WARSHIP NOMENCLATURE.

"Jt is oflicialy 'announced ilhat the'following names have been assigned to the battleships of the 1013-14 programme— Royal Sovereign (Portsmouth Dockyard), Royfli Oak (Devo'nport Dockyard), Resolution '(Palmers), Ramillie-s (Beardniorei! Renown (Vickers). H.M.S. JJellii, building by Messrs. Viekers, Limited, is to be renamed Emperor of li.'dia. ■-r Tho, Vjuestion of nomenclature of. tho. large number of 1 torpedo boat destroyers- has been under consideration bv tlie Admiralty, with the object.of standardising a systein that -will provide a destroyer with an appropriate name which will also suggest 'relation-. ship with her sisters' f>ossessiijg sim'ilir qualities of speed, aromiriont, and g.enpral design.-. A pommittce jppointed to look into the matter, has tabulated a ] number-of appropriate_imm.es, and it is found that bv adopting the old ser- i vice plan, by w?iirii, the naijio of eadi ship of u ;; "c!ass" had tho same initial letter (e.g., C alass, corvettes, Champion, Cleopatra, etc.), there are stiijicent names under 20 letters of the alphabet for as many ■ "classcs.-' The. names elected are principally old service names. . At; important addition, however, is made in. tho use of the names of naval officers specially distinguished 111 action. Tlio following, now under construction, wSI be renamed as,follow: I'lorizel, Ivanhoe,- Talisman, Wayerlev, I now. La-foroy.' s Lawford." Louis, v Lydiard' (Fairfield): Orlando, Viola, now i Loyal, Legion (Denny); Rob Roy, Roc-ke-ti now Lponidas, Lucifer (Parsons); Sarpedon, Uivsso.s, now L»ertes, Ly?a»» : tier (Swan. Hunter); Daring, IJrAgop, now Lance,. Lookout (Thonieycroft); Ri"dgauntlet; Rosalind, now Launjl, Liberty:- (While);.. Haughty .. Havoc, Merewnrd, Hotspur, now Lark, Liniiet, Lavrock, Land raid (Yarrow); Picton, I'ortia, now Llewellyn, LciUl.ox (Brafdnmre).:. - Tlio destroyers recently ordered will receive, the' following panics:—Miranda, . Minos, Miiuly (Yarrow), Meteor, Mastiff (Thoriieyeroft). JWtor. Mansfield 5 (Hawthorn, Leslie), Milne.* Moorsou), Morris® (J. Brown aiid Co.), Murrav^'Myrings s (Palmers), Matchless (Sivan. Huiitpr). Tlie new names marked with .an., asterisk (') are those of distinguished naval officers.. In such cases," and wherever an .explanation of 'the nam®' is otbenviso considered nceosssry, will hp. recorded 011 a brass plate 011 board=tiso destroyer herself., , .