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The name Warspite and the still-conceptual Type 83

Warspite would be a celebrated name for a Type 83 destroyer, but discussion of names should not obscure that the programme had not yet produced a ship.

Question

How would the panel react if a Type 83 destroyer were named Warspite?

Short answer

Very positively, but only after the still-conceptual programme actually produces a ship to name.

Notes

A future Type 83 destroyer would suit the name Warspite. Such a surface combatant would match the name's active fighting tradition better than a ballistic-missile submarine. Britain was discussing the Type 83 but had not begun building one, so naming speculation remains conditional on the programme producing real hulls rather than only concepts and announcements.