Word: crowninshields
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...prized DeGaussing rig of electrical cables, to foil magnetic mines. Aboard each vessel were some 60 U. S. Navy men and officers (about half the normal crew). They were detailed to deliver the ships (probably to Halifax), break in British crews. By week's end the Wood, Welles, Crowninshield, Buchanan, Herndon -eight destroyers all told-had left Boston, still flying the U. S. flag and the U. S. Navy's union jack (but not the commission pennants which mark ships in active U. S. service...
...they should bear the names of British heroes of the U. S. Colonial and Revolutionary period. But the shrewdest suggestion-and one which would please sailors who think name-changing is bad luck-was that they should keep their present names: quiet U. S. heroes like Herndon, Welles, Buchanan, Crowninshield, Abbot, Conner. This would point up the spectacular cooperation which the deal represented...