Mudcat Café message #493145

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Thread #14064 Message #493145
Posted By: Les from Hull
27-Jun-01 - 01:24 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Roll Agamemnon Roll / Mars for Evermore
Subject: RE: ROLL, AGEMEMNON, ROLL backround inf

LH - what a lack of imagination on the Germans' part. Quite a small navy (apart from the subs, I suppose) and they still couldn't think of names!
Fortunately with Britain's long naval heritage we usually had enough names. When the RN took over one of the German destroyers after the war (it was called Z35 or some such), it was commissioned as HMS Nonsuch!
Les