THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, October 23, 1996 TAG: 9610230505
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A2 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: WASHINGTON LENGTH: 18 lines
A destroyer will be named the USS Roosevelt in memory of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor, Navy Secretary John Dalton announced Tuesday.
It will be the 30th ship of the Arleigh Burke class, joining the fleet in the year 2000. The 29th ship is to be named for Winston Churchill.
Roosevelt served as assistant secretary of the Navy in World War I. Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty before he became prime minister of Great Britain. by CNB