NAMES FOR U.S.A. DESTROYERS
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, states the Admiralty. Two ships are to bear the names of towns in Newfoundland as well as in Britain and the United States — St. Albans and St. Marys. * Six ships will bear the names of towns in the West Indies as well as in the United Kingdom and the United States — Bath, Georgetown, Brighton, Hamilton, Charlestown and Roxborough, Twenty-eight ships are to be named after towns and villages common to the United Kingdom and the United States. Their names will be as follows:Belmont Mansfield Beverley Montgomery Bradford Newark Broadwater , Newmarket Broadway Newport Burnham Ramsey Burwell Reading Buxton Richmond Lancaster Ripley Leamington Rockingham Leeds Salisbury Lewes Sherwood Lincoln Stanley Ludlow Wells
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 82, 17 January 1941, Page 3
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144NAMES FOR U.S.A. DESTROYERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 82, 17 January 1941, Page 3
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