Why naming the Type 83 class is unusually difficult

Will the Royal Navy's Type 83 destroyers receive city, county, or town names?

No scheme is obvious because most strong traditions are already in use; counties, admirals, battles, royal titles, or an E-class are all plausible but imperfect.

The Royal Navy has already assigned city names to Type 26, virtues to Type 31, rivers to patrol vessels, and historic capital-ship names to carriers and ballistic-missile submarines. Counties or duchies would overlap awkwardly with cities and existing Duke-class names. Royal titles, admirals, battles, or a new letter class remain possible, but each choice collides with a current name or an unwanted comparison with recently retired ships. The discussion shows that class naming is institutional memory management as much as a search for impressive words.