 She was named in honor of Gunners Mate First Class Minor Butler Poole who was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism and courageous devotion to duty while in charge of the Forward Magazine Flooding Control Station aboard during the Battle of Cape Esperance, Guadalcanal, on the night of 11–12 October 1942.He gave up his life in an attempt to reach the flooding panel through overpowering gas fumes, 12 October 1942.