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Also in this podcast... HMS Agincourt would instead be known as HMS Achilles.

Also in this podcast... HMS Agincourt would instead be known as HMS Achilles.

Ostensibly, it's the Royal Navy's Ships, Names and Badging Committee which decides what a vessel's called, then approved by the monarch. But politicians have intervened in the past. It was the former Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson who first announced that the seventh astute-class submarine, now under construction, would be named HMS Agincourt.

Ostensibly, it's the Royal Navy's Ships, Names and Badging Committee which decides what a vessel's called, then approved by the monarch. But politicians have intervened in the past. It was the former Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson who first announced that the seventh astute-class submarine, now under construction, would be named HMS Agincourt.

recalling the famous battle in 1415, in which Henry V's army, outnumbered but including the much-feared Longbowmen, defeated the French. A victory immortalised by Shakespeare's words and on film. Sir Gavin might not have been worried about ruffling a few French feathers, but others were. The Navy announced a change of name. HMS Agincourt would instead be known as HMS Achilles.

recalling the famous battle in 1415, in which Henry V's army, outnumbered but including the much-feared Longbowmen, defeated the French. A victory immortalised by Shakespeare's words and on film. Sir Gavin might not have been worried about ruffling a few French feathers, but others were. The Navy announced a change of name. HMS Agincourt would instead be known as HMS Achilles.

A change that followed newspaper reports of concerns within the MOD that naming a submarine after a key ally's humiliating loss might offend. even though earlier naval vessels have borne the same name. Another former Conservative Defence Secretary, Grant Shapps, has called the U-turn sacrilege and woke nonsense. Renaming a vessel is rare but not unprecedented.

A change that followed newspaper reports of concerns within the MOD that naming a submarine after a key ally's humiliating loss might offend. even though earlier naval vessels have borne the same name. Another former Conservative Defence Secretary, Grant Shapps, has called the U-turn sacrilege and woke nonsense. Renaming a vessel is rare but not unprecedented.

Superstitious sailors sometimes view changing a name unlucky.

Superstitious sailors sometimes view changing a name unlucky.

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