DESTROYERS NAMED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 263, 4 October 1940, Page 7

DESTROYERS NAMED.

INTERESTING PROCEDURE

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Oct. 2.

The names of towns and villages common to the United Kingdom and the United States of America have been selected for 44 of the destroyers transferred from, the United States Navy. Two ships are to bear the names of towns in Newfoundland as well as in the United Kingdom and the United States—St. Albans and St. Marys. Six will bear the names of towns in the West Indies as well as in the United Kingdom and the United States. These will be named Bath, Brighton, Charleston, Georgetown, Hamilton, and Roxborougli. Twenty-eight ships will he named after towns and villages common to the United Kingdom and the United States. The names will he Belmont, Beverley, Bradford, Broadwater, Broadway, Burnham, Burwell, Buxton, Lancaster, Leamington, Leeds, Lewes, Lincoln, Ludlow. Mansfield, Montgomery, Newark, Newmarket, Newport, Ramsey, Reading Richmond, Ripley, Rockingham, Salisbury, Sherwood. Stanley and Wells.

The names of eight other ships already named are Churchill (leader), Caldwell, Cameron, Castleton, Chelsea, Chesterfield, Clare, and Campbelltown. The remaining six destroyers transferred from the United States Navy are being manned by the Royal Canadian Navy. These, ships will bear the names of towns and villages common to Canada and the United States. They will be named Annapolis, Columbia, Niagara, St. Clair, St. Croix, and St. Francis.