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04/25/2007: "CC Votes To Keep Battleship Island Name"

The County Council has decided to recommend to the feds that Battleship Island not be renamed.

Councilman Gene Knapp acknowledged that after 80 years of being called Battleship Island, it is time “to let the name rest in peace”; and anyway, Councilman Howard Rosenfeld said, from a certain angle, the island really does look like a battleship.

Councilman Rich Peterson noted that if one looks on a navigation chart, there is an island in Canada that is in direct line with Battleship Island that has a name similar to the proposed name, and he could see confusion in navigation resulting if both islands had similar sounding names. That was the final salvo that sunk Lichter’s arguments to rename Battleship Island

With only Lichter voting against the motion to leave the name as is, the Council will now forward their recommendation that the name remain as is.