... on the suggestion that one of the new carriers should be named
PoW - 'Prince of Wales' - It should be remembered that the same abbreviation is used for 'Prisoner of War' - and that one of our largest and most powerful warships of its day - the 'Prince of Wales' - was tragically
and ignominiously sunk off the Malayan coast by Jap aircraft in 1941.
Not to diminish in any way those who served and perished in that ww2 disaster.
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