A Royal Navy committee after the Second World War considered how submarines should be identified. Letter-and-number designations were judged dehumanizing and less effective at building crew attachment. The resulting morale study favored giving submarines names, as surface ships had. Names were intended to strengthen the crew's sense of value and esprit de corps.
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Why Royal Navy submarines gained names
A postwar Royal Navy review linked named submarines with stronger crew identity and morale than letter-and-number designations.