Re: More questions not only for Nederlanders

Jacques wrote

< I have it that the flushdecker USS Buchanan (DD-131) was transfered to the Royal Netherlands Navy and would have been renamed Middelburg but this was not allowed by the lend lease agreement. >

Jan responded

< She was Hr.Ms. Campbeltown. >

Well that exchange left this non-Nederlander scratching his head. What was it about the Lend Lease agreement that prevented the renaming of BUCHANON as CAMPBELTOWN but nicht MIDDELBURG.

Guys, I know that some of you think that terse and cryptic answers are good, manly stuff, but pray consider expanding your answers so that a more complete and detailed response is forthcoming. Exempli gratia, why it was against the rules to rename an American DD "MIDDELBURG" whereas "CAMBELTOWN" was A-OK. Was such renaming restricted to ones of British or Commonwealth origin? And thank you.

Nelson