Seapower, Geostrategic Relations, and Islandness: The World War II Destroyers for Bases Deal

• Main Author: Flint, Colin
• Other Authors: University of Prince Edward Island * Institute of Island Studies
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Hosted by Utah State University Libraries 2021
• Subjects: Destroyers for Bases deal; Islandness; Seapower; United States of America; World War II; Trinidad; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/polsci_facpub/45; https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1046&context=polsci_facpub

The Destroyers for Bases deal was signed on March 27, 1941, and transferred fifty aging US destroyers to Great Britain in exchange for 99-year leases of bases on the British controlled islands of Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, Jamaica, Antigua, St. Lucia, the Bahamas, and one in British Guiana. Th...