NAMES APPROVED
DESTROYERS FROM U.S.A.
NOVEL IDEA APPLIED
(United Press Association —Copyright.)
(Britisii Official Wireless.) (Rec, 10 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 17. The question of the naming of the fifty destroyers transferred to the British flag by the United States was raised in the House of Commons to-day by the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr A. Y. Alexander), who stated that, by agreement between the two Governments, the original American names would not be used.
Mr Alexander disclosed that the names which the King had approved for the first flotilla were as follow: Churchill (leader), Caldwell, Cameron, Castleton, Chelsea, Chesterfield, Clare, and Campbelltown. Mr Alexander pointed out that these were all the names of towns or villages common to the United Kingdom and the United States.
Names on a similar basis for the other American destroyers would shortly be given, and these would include the special choice of a few names common to the West Indieß as well.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 249, 18 September 1940, Page 7
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158NAMES APPROVED Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 249, 18 September 1940, Page 7
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