 Other U.S. warships named after Britons were , an armed merchantman named after King Alfred the Great; , a continental frigate, named after Sir Walter Raleigh (though three later USS "Raleigh"s—and two Confederate warships—would be named after the North Carolina city, which did not exist at the time) and , named after The 3rd Earl of Effingham who resigned his commission rather than fight the colonists during the American Revolutionary War.The former frigate was also named after a person from a country in the Commonwealth of Nations, Harold Holt, the Australian Prime Minister who is presumed to have drowned in 1967.However, this is the first ship to be named after a modern British citizen, or British Prime Minister.