Operation Chariot
The names selected for the four Batch 3 ships were a mixture: two, "Cornwall" and "Cumberland", revived County-class names previously carried both by First World War-era armoured cruisers, and by Second World War-era heavy cruisers. The other Batch 3s, "Chatham" and "Campbeltown", were Town names, the former reviving a 1911 light cruiser name, and the latter commemorating famous for participation in the St Nazaire Raid in 1942; the name for HMS "Chatham" was selected as a salute to the Medway town, where the Chatham Dockyard, established in 1570, had closed in 1984.