30 Jan 2025

What's behind the namimg of ships? A historian explains

From Nights, 9:50 pm on 30 January 2025

The changing of the name of a submarine by the UK Royal Navy has branded "woke nonsense" by a former Defence Secretary.

The HMS Agincourt is to be renamed HMS Achilles after concern e original name for the vessel may have offended the French.

Agincourt refers to a battle England won against France in 1415, as part of the Hundred Years' War.

Michael Wynd is the researcher and military historian at the National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy. and joins Emile Donovan.

The MS Agincourt is to be renamed HMS Achilles.

The MS Agincourt is to be renamed HMS Achilles. Photo: UK Ministry of Defence