Ajax Remembered
She was decommissioned in February 1948. She was initially intended to be sold to the Indian Navy but this deal did not materialize due to Winston Churchill's apparent disapproval of the sale. He felt that such an important vessel would be better off broken up to preserve her history. She duly arrived at Cashmore's, in Newport, South Wales, for breaking up on 18 November 1949.
The town of Ajax, in Ontario, Canada, was named after the cruiser following the Battle of the River Plate. The town also has streets named after members of the ship's company. For example, Harwood Avenue is the town's main north-south street. Many street signs in the town bear the silhouette of the ship, and the ship's anchor rests in front of the local branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.
Ajax's bell is on a monument in Montevideo, just outside the port customs house, and was donated by Admiral Sir Henry Harwood and Sir Eugen Millington-Drake in 1949.
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