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[AussieMick]

Yes! You got there, Roger.

Ive been reading Churchill by Roy Jenkins. In 1915 Churchill ordered the British Navy chiefs to make use of those ships (he used the American names in his memo) in the Dardanelles.
Of course, the naval Dardanelles campaign came to grief due (IMO) to the Navy's incompetence. And then they tried landing troops at Gallipoli ... a disaster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Abercrombie_(1915)
tells the story of the names.

BTW Churchill has been massively criticised for the Gallipoli debacle.
But if the Dardanelles had succeeded, WW1 would have almost certainly have ended in 1915-6. The Russian Csar would probably have survived (well, maybe),