Fifteen ships were ordered on 24 March 1943:"Corunna", "Oudenarde" and "River Plate" (from Swan Hunter); "Dunkirk", (original) "Malplaquet" and "St Lucia" (from Stephen); "Belle Isle" and "Omdurman" (from Fairfield); "Jutland", "Mons" and "Poictiers" (from Hawthorn Leslie; "Poictiers" is the spelling used for "Poitiers" at the time of the battle); and "Namur", "Navarino", "San Domingo" and "Somme" (from Cammell Laird).