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USS Canberra and names honouring foreign ships

USS Canberra supplies a later correction to an initially negative answer about naming ships after another navy's vessels.

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Question

Has a navy built a ship named after a famous ship in another country's navy?

Short answer

USS Canberra is the example accepted in the follow-up. A ship named after Winston Churchill would instead honour the person.

Notes

The initial answer finds no example of a new ship named after a famous vessel in another navy. USS Canberra is accepted in the later follow-up. A proposed Churchill example is excluded because it honours the person, which is a different naming practice.