HC Deb 01 July 1992 vol 210 c650W
Mr. David Martin

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make it his policy for a forthcoming ship in the Royal Navy to be named after the city of Portsmouth.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

The ships names and badges committee has considered the name of Portsmouth, but it has not found favour on account of possible confusion, in communications, between the name of the ship and the naval base.