Honours of Winston Churchill - Objects

Objects

The Sir Winston Churchill Range in the Canadian Rockies was named in his honour.

One of four specially made sets of false teeth, designed to retain Churchill's distinctive style of speech, which Churchill wore throughout his life, is now kept in the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Two Royal Navy warships have been named HMS Churchill: the destroyer USS Herndon (DD-198) (I45) (1940–1944) and the submarine HMS Churchill (S46) (1970–1991).

On 10 March 2001, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) was commissioned into the United States Navy. The launch and christening of the ship two years earlier was co-sponsored by Churchill's daughter, Lady Soames.

In September 1947, the Southern Railway named a Battle of Britain class steam locomotive No. 21C151 after him. Churchill was offered the opportunity to perform the naming cerement, but he declined. The locomotive was later used to pull his funeral train, and is now preserved in the National Railway Museum, York.

He appears on 1965 crown, the first commoner to be placed on British coins. He made another appearance on a crown issued in 2010 to honor the 70th anniversary of his Premiership.

Pol Roger's prestige cuvée Champagne, Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill, is named after him. The first vintage, 1975, was launched in 1984 at Blenheim Palace. The name was accepted by his heirs as Churchill was a faithful customer of Pol Roger. Following Churchill's death in 1965, Pol Roger added a black border to the label on bottles shipped to the UK as a sign of mourning. This was not lifted until 1990.

The Churchill tank, or Infantry Tank Mk IV; was a British Second World War tank named after Churchill, who was Prime Minister at the time of its design.

The Julieta (7" × 47), a size of cigar, is also commonly known as a Churchill.

Read more about this topic:  Honours Of Winston Churchill

Famous quotes containing the word objects:

    There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
    David Hume (1711–1776)

    All objects look well through an arch.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)