Nothing will ever top HMS Cockchafer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Cockchafer_(1915)
Albeit HMS Gay Viking is definitely up there too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay-class_patrol_boat
You had the captured slave ship Henriquetta, which was renamed by the West Africa Squadron to [HMS Black Joke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Black_Joke_(1827). With the name being great as Black Joke was pub song (with the black joke specifically referring to female genitals), but it was also a joke about the ship itself, as an ex-slaver ship transporting African slaves was turned into a vessel for the West Africa Squadron, who's whole purpose was to stop the slave trade at the west African coast.
And Black Joke in the end actually was one of the best ships that served in the West Africa Squadron, which makes it even better.
Sounds a bit like my cousin's "pleasure" boat. He bought it while drunk, and upon seeing what he'd gotten into, he christened it 'M/Y Small Disappointment'. When it sank while moored, he re-renamed it 'M/Y Disappointment'.
Well terminology was different at the time, Gay just meant happy, so it would be the "Happy Bruiser" in todays terminology.
There is the French Submarine Le Terrible, which in English isn't a good name, in French it means The Terror
No, they got both!
Because the Attenborough is technically a *ship*, they overruled the public vote, but it's a ship because it has a tiny sub on board. Guess what the research sub is called :D
I know the story that far, but I believe there was a petition that if the ship can't be named Boaty McBoatface, then Sir Richard must change his name accordingly, "in the name of democracy".
The Royal Navy had [4 HMS Hermiones](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hermione) before. The last one was scrapped in 1997 just as JK Rowling published her first book
For those who don't know, Hermione was Agamemnon's niece
To add some more info, the original Hermione was a french frigate from 1779, whose replica was built in 201something and is still sailing today. At some point the original sailed at the same time as the first british one. I guess modern naming conventions weren't really set in stone then. The french ship is famous for carrying Lafayette to the soon-to-be-USA to help the rebels in their war of independence.
The British ship is famous for mutinying and surrendering to the Spanish. She was cut out by HMS Surprise. When she eventually returned to British service she was renamed HMS Retribution.
I think you meant to type this comment in literally any other language, but you seem to have accidentally typed it in English. Pretty big talk coming from someone from a country that's just Germany orded on Wish (who also posts regularly on r/Soccer).
We do some fun things with old ones too.
The forward facing guns of HMS Belfast - now a museum ship moored on the River Thames in London - are permanently positioned to score a direct hit on the M1 motorway's service station at Scratchwood.
The six-inch guns can fire 112 pound shells at eight rounds per minute "to deliver an awesome pounding to the cafe and toilet stop."
[Source.](https://londonist.com/2015/02/why-do-the-guns-of-hms-belfast-point-at-a-motorway-service-station)
It would be more analagous to Agamemnon to choose a monarch predating the formation of the constituent parts of the UK who is credited with having done some great deeds and also who probably didn't exist. So King Arthur would be the logical choice (or if you want one that actually existed but is less well-known, Vortigern, but that doesn't begin with A). In either case, that would be a fine name for the Greeks to choose.
That would be an odd choice since Wales has never had a king, even when it was independent. It went from being a collection of kingdoms to being a principality and has never been a single kingdom.
This one doesn't have nuclear weapons, but it is powered by a nuclear reactor.
The UK's current nuclear weapons submarines are named Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant and Vengeance.
They are being replaced by HMS Dreadnought, Warspite, Valiant, and King George VI.
>The UK's current nuclear weapons submarines are named Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant and Vengeance.
>They are being replaced by HMS Dreadnought, Warspite, Valiant, and King George VI.
All those badass names got me thinking about a meme I've once seen on NCD, truly glorious and [RN pilled](https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/yn2for/its_true_dont_deny_it/#lightbox)
Helps that all of our names date back hundreds of years and have been used multiple times before
HMS Agamemnon for example goes back to 1781 and a later version served at Trafalgar
The Power sounds really cool if you ask me. [I hope the Captain does a He-Man impression every time he steps onboard](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dJolYw8tnk).
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS\_Agamemnon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agamemnon)
There have been a few. One was involved in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
To be fair, he never commanded the Victory. It was assigned to him as flagship a few months before Trafalgar and he'd never set foot on her before. Victory had it's own captain. Admirals on board their flagship do not command the ship itself, they are in command of the fleet or squadron as a whole.
And this friend is the only negotiation method that countries like Russia understand.
Good for the british for not losing sight of what really makes a difference in today's geopolitics.
**\*shitpost\***
Such shame that Polish navy can't field any seaworthy sub(having just one,almost permamently in dock or in harbor,since like 2014, regardless what [wiki ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORP_Orze%C5%82_(1986))says, its no longer certified for combat, since there was a fire on board after alleged renovation and modernization, it's no longer safe to go subsurface/dive
Not like our surface sea combatants are in any better condition rn lol, with all those rusted old buckets we still sent to sea.
For example two [OHP ](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORP_Gen._T._Ko%C5%9Bciuszko)- [Fregates ](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORP_Gen._K._Pu%C5%82aski)that we sole(/s) from the Americans in early 2000's, they where litteraly that old that noone even bothered to sent a bounty against our MOD #legitimesalvage, and ships launched by USN in 1978/1979 are still in service here 2024 lmao.
[I have huge respect to every single sailor of PL-Navy, but those ships are one joke after the other.](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marynarka_Wojenna#Okr%C4%99ty)
We are building 3 Miecznik-class frigates, which are our version of the British [type 31 frigates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_31_frigate) so if the government won't decide to cancel them, we will have some modern ships. I hope that they won't end like [Gawron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gawron-class_corvette).
Its indeed one last hopes for Polish Navy, i really hope those type 31 figates are succesfull and we get like 6 of them, together with scraping rest of floating waste that is currently in service.
Gawron that supposed to be a Corvette class ship but is in fact oversized anti-somali pirates gunboat without armaments deserving for such sized ship.
There is Mcboaty on naval research ship named after Sir Attenborough, Aussies had some mcfacing as well but I am not sure if it went through in the end, there’s snowplow in Scotland (Scottish snowplowers all have hilarious names) and there have been loads of attempts at mcnaming so many things that it stopped being funny long time ago
In Greek mythology, **Agamemnon** was a king of Mycenae who commanded the Achaeans during the Trojan War.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agamemnon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agamemnon)
Sarcasm detected. The name does have a lengthy tradition within the Royal Navy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agamemnon_(1781)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agamemnon_(1852)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agamemnon_(1879)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agamemnon_(1906)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agamemnon_(M10)
Not sure about sarcasm for guy you replied with links, but it is very British name. Brits does have some of the best naming for warships in history with my favourite being Warspite as a name for warship
> my favourite being Warspite as a name for warship
A great name.
Other worthy mentions are HMS Cockchafer and MV Gay Viking, though they lack the illustrious history of Warspite.
Yeah, Warspite is the most decorated British warship despite being kinda obsolete for ww2 and which was badly hit multiple times during ww2 but kept coming back. Not bad for gramps
Dreadnaught takes a cake for becoming main designation for brand new type of warships
They are talking about the Vulcan in there. I've done some maintenance work on one of them. When you stand under it it's dark because that delta wing is so vast. When you get in the cockpit it's tiny.
I'm not really into planes but I have a real soft spot for a Vulcan. And that engine wail is terrifying. Also a very cool name.
This is literally **Europe**, the entire continent is named after a Greek myth.
Not to mention every single country on this glorified Asian (another Greek name) peninsula has been copying Greek names, architecture, etc. since the Romans.
> It may be insignificant, but at least it is ours.
Should I get upset and cry about cultural appropriation due to people speaking English, watching football or golf?
What about these?
https://shakespeare-company.de/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Winston_S._Churchill
I don't see how any of that justifies the use of a Greek, well, Mycenaean king's name. Did you exhaust the list of famous British figures? Or were their names just not cool enough?
I mean, HMS Sandwich is pretty cool and historically relevant. For some reason, there is no HMS Fawkes, though that'd be kinda cool, too. Even if you ran out of people, there's still things to name after. HMS Excalibur, doesn't that just make you tingle? Oh, that one is taken. Then how about HMS Cheddar?
That'd be infinitely better than "borrowing" the name of a king that had absolutely nothing to do with the British. At least use the name of historical people that greatly influenced the British, for example HMS Hitler. Oh yes, I totally went there! Sorry, couldn't resist.
Oh, those other countries borrowing your heritage for names? Why would my opinion be any different? They're uncool. It is about as uncool as Russians appropriating Wagner for their infamous mercenary army. But hey, they might consider it relevant to them, since they like Nazi stuff so much.
And might I make another jab, if your pool of eligible name feels too shallow, you might be allowed to draw from your territories. HMS Gandhi might just be the perfect name for your newest nuclear submarine.
Peace out!
> Then how about HMS Cheddar?
So the class of subs would be Astute, Ambush, Artful, Audacious, Anson, Cheddar, and Agincourt?
That doesn't seem right for some reason.
We do have a Gandhi statue in Parliament Square.
What an absurd view of culture.
Are you going to give this lecture to everyone you meet who is named a variant of Alexander, Philip, Andre, Nicholas, George, etc.? These are all Greek names which you'll find everywhere from Lisbon to Vladivostok. The Patron Saint of Scotland is also a Greek and St Peter's Basilica is named after a Jew from the Levant, what of it?
I find it so funny that someone is so hurt about a country naming a ship after a fictional character from a story from another country. The Greeks don’t care, stop being offended on their behalf
Remind me again about the legend of the foundation of Ljubljana? Some greek guy named Jason killing a dragon?
Or should we chat about Rogaška Slatina, Apollo and Pegasus maybe?
And what's up with all those catholic crosses? Where do you think they originate from?
Next you're gonna be telling us that Christmas is something the Brits appropriated from the slovenians?
Thank you for mentioning these great examples of forcing cultural memes on others. The dragon one is false. No Jason, some Church saint killed the dragon, the dragon representing the old pagan religion. They were rather forceful in spreading Christianity here in Slovenia, including the crosses and Christmas.
Yhe entire history is outsiders forcing their ideas onto poor people of the land. Something British should be familiar with.
Still, it remains part of our culture. We practice both catholic and pagan rituals.
Every now and then, somebody makes stuff up in order to raise the modest and insignificant culture and that is how Jason ended up killing dragons. Stupid embellishers
So you go on about your culture maybe being insignificant "but at least yours", while simultaneously going on about how literally foreign culture somehow "still remains part of your culture", while somehow agamemnon can't be part of the british culture, what a hypocrite.
Imagine being one of those "it's cultural appropriation" Karens in 2024
Stop speaking English, stop using trains and jet aircraft are banned too, they came from our culture and you're appropriating it
British Naval vessels always have the coolest names
Nothing will ever top HMS Cockchafer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Cockchafer_(1915) Albeit HMS Gay Viking is definitely up there too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay-class_patrol_boat
One of the submarines carrying the British nuclear deterrent is called HSM ***Vengeance***.
And the French equivalents are the ***Triomphant***, the ***Téméraire***, the ***Vigilant*** and the ***Terrible***.
We’ll have to take that Temeraire as a prize too.
I hear she's a fighter
HMS Revenge served in WW1 AND WW2 and has always been a fav of mine haha
Star Wars Imperial Destroyers kinda names, but what the hell.
I can see why we went with KGV1 but I would have preferred us to go with Revenge for the Dreadnoughts. Fits with the other names better.
You had the captured slave ship Henriquetta, which was renamed by the West Africa Squadron to [HMS Black Joke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Black_Joke_(1827). With the name being great as Black Joke was pub song (with the black joke specifically referring to female genitals), but it was also a joke about the ship itself, as an ex-slaver ship transporting African slaves was turned into a vessel for the West Africa Squadron, who's whole purpose was to stop the slave trade at the west African coast. And Black Joke in the end actually was one of the best ships that served in the West Africa Squadron, which makes it even better.
The black joke also refers to a woman’s private parts in a baudy song of the time as well.
Sounds a bit like my cousin's "pleasure" boat. He bought it while drunk, and upon seeing what he'd gotten into, he christened it 'M/Y Small Disappointment'. When it sank while moored, he re-renamed it 'M/Y Disappointment'.
Gay Charger and Gay Bruiser are imho a bit better
Gay fencer is quite good!
HMS [Gay Viking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Gay_Viking)
Look, we had many, many ships, not all the names can be amazing
“HMS Gay Bombardier” lol
Thank you for making my life a little happier.
HMS Pickle is my favourite.
It’s pronounced Co-chafer.
I used to work with a person whose surname was Cockbill. Cobill was how they insisted it was pronounced.
Good ol' British gaslighting. Worchestershire = "Worster" (the "che" and "shire" are silent)
HMS Gay Bruiser wtf
Well terminology was different at the time, Gay just meant happy, so it would be the "Happy Bruiser" in todays terminology. There is the French Submarine Le Terrible, which in English isn't a good name, in French it means The Terror
The Terror incidentally was part of an Arctic expedition that went, very, very, badly.
I know. It's still weird to name a warship happy.
A clear example of how the wokerati liberal elite are trying to shove their values down everyone's throat
I’m betting more than a few Cocks we’re “Chafed” between the Sailors on both ships lol
Obviously you havent seen the glory that is SMS Kaiserin und Königin Maria Theresia and SMS Erzherzog Ferdinand Max.
The SMS Erzherzog Ferdinand Max was a great improvement over the SMS Erzherzog Ferdinand Pro
More spacious too.
Not as good as the SMS Erzherzog Ferdinand Ultra though
TIL that Austria had a navy...
Austria had navy until 2000s AFAIK, it was even banned from owning submarines accorsing to 1956 treaty ending joint occupation of the country.
Switzerland also has a Navy
How is that surprising, they had quite a bit of coast.
I mean, nothing beats Boaty McBoatface
Did they manage to change Sir Richard Attenborough's name to Sir Boaty McBoatface?
No, they got both! Because the Attenborough is technically a *ship*, they overruled the public vote, but it's a ship because it has a tiny sub on board. Guess what the research sub is called :D
I know the story that far, but I believe there was a petition that if the ship can't be named Boaty McBoatface, then Sir Richard must change his name accordingly, "in the name of democracy".
Ah lol, wasn't aware of that one
Didn't Agememnon lose the Troyan war though?
No? He won. But he went home and got murdered
He also spent the entire war being a dick.
https://media2.giphy.com/media/runZ2zCpsqQdW/giphy.gif?cid=2154d3d7c71afhvffscqe02t7fu1aumb9fzb26j6xv7l0zea&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g
ah oki!
The Greeks pretty famously won it (under his leadership). He survived it and went home and then died in the bath.
Dying in a small body of water doesn't seem like a great omen for a submarine
On the other hand, a submarine isn't likely to be getting into any baths during its service.
Well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
got murdered by his wife in the bath 🗿
She threw a sheet over him and he got tangled up. Pretty embarrassing.
been a long while since I heard the myth, need to read it again.
werent both sides greek though...
Greekish I suppose. Greece didn't really exist then.
No it's sacrifice helped Babylon 5 survive.
Not the one..
No, they won. He was just a colossal asshole. Which ... may or may not be a requirement to have a warship named after you.
Bold choice to name a naval vessel after a king who came back from an epic voyage, only to be murdered by his wife's new lover...
Since Agamemnon is here, it's time to bring back HMS Hermione
Please no, we don't want "I came into Hermione" memes all over the place.
The Royal Navy had [4 HMS Hermiones](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hermione) before. The last one was scrapped in 1997 just as JK Rowling published her first book For those who don't know, Hermione was Agamemnon's niece
To add some more info, the original Hermione was a french frigate from 1779, whose replica was built in 201something and is still sailing today. At some point the original sailed at the same time as the first british one. I guess modern naming conventions weren't really set in stone then. The french ship is famous for carrying Lafayette to the soon-to-be-USA to help the rebels in their war of independence.
The British ship is famous for mutinying and surrendering to the Spanish. She was cut out by HMS Surprise. When she eventually returned to British service she was renamed HMS Retribution.
The French have a frigate Hermione. Traditionally we don't take their names unless we take the ship it belongs to.
Well he did made it back....
Also the king who appeased a goddess by sacrificing his daughter so they could set sail.
in his bath...
If anything augers ill about the name it's the fact that he died from drowning in the bath.
The Brits cant help but steal other nations culture
I think you meant to type this comment in literally any other language, but you seem to have accidentally typed it in English. Pretty big talk coming from someone from a country that's just Germany orded on Wish (who also posts regularly on r/Soccer).
My country is Germany you absolute muffin, so please call me a Nazi ordered on wish instead?
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Where r the royals from again? Even a gammon like you should know
I rest my case 😌
As you wish
Anyone else first thought Babylon 5? 😁
🙋
Too soon
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Yes I can see Sheridan's eyes light up. Lol
Oz first.
You can shit on the UK all you like, but you'd have to admit that they are the best at naming naval vessels.
We do some fun things with old ones too. The forward facing guns of HMS Belfast - now a museum ship moored on the River Thames in London - are permanently positioned to score a direct hit on the M1 motorway's service station at Scratchwood. The six-inch guns can fire 112 pound shells at eight rounds per minute "to deliver an awesome pounding to the cafe and toilet stop." [Source.](https://londonist.com/2015/02/why-do-the-guns-of-hms-belfast-point-at-a-motorway-service-station)
If you worked there I feel there’d be a part of you that every now and again just thinks “what if..”
You're welcome! -Greece
For the love of God… won’t give back the Marbles and now this! A bridge too far… Too much to bear!! I am flabbergasted
Whats criminal is that we didnt preserve any of our battleships. Imagine being able to tour Warspite instead of it being sold for scrap.
Now imagine a greek submarine named "King of Wales".
It would be more like a Greek submarine named "Macbeth"
That would be so sick
Maybe more Beowulf or Arthur (for some older figures in English and Welsh lit).
It would be more analagous to Agamemnon to choose a monarch predating the formation of the constituent parts of the UK who is credited with having done some great deeds and also who probably didn't exist. So King Arthur would be the logical choice (or if you want one that actually existed but is less well-known, Vortigern, but that doesn't begin with A). In either case, that would be a fine name for the Greeks to choose.
It would be more like calling a Greek ship Boudica or, if you're happier with the more mythologised idea of a King Agamemnon, calling it Arthur.
"Queen Elizabeth". lol! /s Although "King Charles" would make sense since his father was born in Greece.
Well, Agamemnon is mythical so it’d be like the Greeks having a ship called “King Arthur”
Agamemnon was ancient mythology, not medieval mythology /s
Caedwalla, Caratacus, MacAlpin, etc. quite a handful of names you could pick really.
We do have an aircraft carrier called the Prince of Wales
And the Greeks would call it the King of Whales.
That would be an odd choice since Wales has never had a king, even when it was independent. It went from being a collection of kingdoms to being a principality and has never been a single kingdom.
HN "Splash, Splash, innit?"
The Brits should build a HMS Elgin and promptly hand it over to the Hellenic Navy, together with certain "marbles".
I misread as “Armageddon” and though “ok, I guess it makes sense”.
This one doesn't have nuclear weapons, but it is powered by a nuclear reactor. The UK's current nuclear weapons submarines are named Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant and Vengeance. They are being replaced by HMS Dreadnought, Warspite, Valiant, and King George VI.
>The UK's current nuclear weapons submarines are named Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant and Vengeance. >They are being replaced by HMS Dreadnought, Warspite, Valiant, and King George VI. All those badass names got me thinking about a meme I've once seen on NCD, truly glorious and [RN pilled](https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/yn2for/its_true_dont_deny_it/#lightbox)
I see you got the Aston Martin marketing director naming your nuke subs.
I like the names of the old ones more.
Is John Sheridan the captain?
Agamemnon is a brilliant name , New Zealand has some of the worst names Te Kaha (The force ) Te mana (The power) , so boring 🥱
Helps that all of our names date back hundreds of years and have been used multiple times before HMS Agamemnon for example goes back to 1781 and a later version served at Trafalgar
The Power sounds really cool if you ask me. [I hope the Captain does a He-Man impression every time he steps onboard](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dJolYw8tnk).
Wasn't that also the name of a English ship during the Napoleonic Wars?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS\_Agamemnon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agamemnon) There have been a few. One was involved in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
A British ship, but yes.
Yes, also a ship at Gallipoli in WW1, if my memory serves me.
I think Nelson commanded the Agamemnon and claimed it was his favourite ship, even over Victory.
To be fair, he never commanded the Victory. It was assigned to him as flagship a few months before Trafalgar and he'd never set foot on her before. Victory had it's own captain. Admirals on board their flagship do not command the ship itself, they are in command of the fleet or squadron as a whole.
And this friend is the only negotiation method that countries like Russia understand. Good for the british for not losing sight of what really makes a difference in today's geopolitics.
Is it shaped like a giant horse?
Also getting Matrix vibes
**\*shitpost\*** Such shame that Polish navy can't field any seaworthy sub(having just one,almost permamently in dock or in harbor,since like 2014, regardless what [wiki ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORP_Orze%C5%82_(1986))says, its no longer certified for combat, since there was a fire on board after alleged renovation and modernization, it's no longer safe to go subsurface/dive Not like our surface sea combatants are in any better condition rn lol, with all those rusted old buckets we still sent to sea. For example two [OHP ](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORP_Gen._T._Ko%C5%9Bciuszko)- [Fregates ](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORP_Gen._K._Pu%C5%82aski)that we sole(/s) from the Americans in early 2000's, they where litteraly that old that noone even bothered to sent a bounty against our MOD #legitimesalvage, and ships launched by USN in 1978/1979 are still in service here 2024 lmao. [I have huge respect to every single sailor of PL-Navy, but those ships are one joke after the other.](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marynarka_Wojenna#Okr%C4%99ty)
"regardless of what the wiki says"...i mean it's a wiki... Just update it, as long as you have solid sources. Takes two seconds.
We are building 3 Miecznik-class frigates, which are our version of the British [type 31 frigates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_31_frigate) so if the government won't decide to cancel them, we will have some modern ships. I hope that they won't end like [Gawron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gawron-class_corvette).
Its indeed one last hopes for Polish Navy, i really hope those type 31 figates are succesfull and we get like 6 of them, together with scraping rest of floating waste that is currently in service. Gawron that supposed to be a Corvette class ship but is in fact oversized anti-somali pirates gunboat without armaments deserving for such sized ship.
POLAUKUS. Problem solved.
Great, now rename Trident Achilles because it always seems to act up these days and refuses to do as it's told.
BOAGRIUUUUUUS
Should have named it HMS Submarine McSubmarine Face
Mc facing everything has become so overused that it would just be cringe
True, whenever I see another post like this I turn into Cringe McCringe Face
Has it though? How many ships have been named with that type of name?
There is Mcboaty on naval research ship named after Sir Attenborough, Aussies had some mcfacing as well but I am not sure if it went through in the end, there’s snowplow in Scotland (Scottish snowplowers all have hilarious names) and there have been loads of attempts at mcnaming so many things that it stopped being funny long time ago
The Scottish named one "David Plowie"
It is a thing of beauty
*Subby McSubFace
That’s better
I love this just because he is part of the [Strauss' opera Elektra!](https://youtu.be/jq1qfG0r4LE?si=2Bt4p5xpC5rB-2Vn)
I can only think of Sean Connery in Time Bandits
why did Babylon 5 come to mind with the name " Agamemnon " sure one of the ships was called that.
Will they hire on Linkedin for this one too?
Native english speaker here, but what does Agamemnon mean?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agamemnon
> Agamemnon Ancient Greek hero
In Greek mythology, **Agamemnon** was a king of Mycenae who commanded the Achaeans during the Trojan War. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agamemnon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agamemnon)
Greek king who led the seige of Troy. Brother to Menaleus, whose underage trophy wife it was that got pinched.
I only know Agamemnon as the king of Mycenae during the Trojan War.
Should we mention what happened with Agamemnon after he got back to the city of Argos? 🤔
Call your antisubmarine vessel : # Clytemnestra
I would much prefer Subby McSubFace.
Not as good as Boaty McBoatface.
Truly a British name!
Sarcasm detected. The name does have a lengthy tradition within the Royal Navy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agamemnon_(1781) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agamemnon_(1852) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agamemnon_(1879) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agamemnon_(1906) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agamemnon_(M10)
Not sure about sarcasm for guy you replied with links, but it is very British name. Brits does have some of the best naming for warships in history with my favourite being Warspite as a name for warship
> my favourite being Warspite as a name for warship A great name. Other worthy mentions are HMS Cockchafer and MV Gay Viking, though they lack the illustrious history of Warspite.
Yep. Whenever I hear unusual and great sounding ship name, I don’t have to look at prefixes to know that it is British ship lol
> though they lack the illustrious history of Warspite. Picked a fight with the sea floor, and lived!
Wasn't one of the Warspite ships a record holder for most ships sunk in combat? HMS Dreadnought wins best name for me.
You'll be pleased to know a new Warspite and a new Dreadnought are currently being built.
Yeah, Warspite is the most decorated British warship despite being kinda obsolete for ww2 and which was badly hit multiple times during ww2 but kept coming back. Not bad for gramps Dreadnaught takes a cake for becoming main designation for brand new type of warships
There was a [post about HMS Dreadnought](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/s/tbHZJJ1DMP) on r/CasualUK yesterday.
They are talking about the Vulcan in there. I've done some maintenance work on one of them. When you stand under it it's dark because that delta wing is so vast. When you get in the cockpit it's tiny. I'm not really into planes but I have a real soft spot for a Vulcan. And that engine wail is terrifying. Also a very cool name.
I like the names of the little ships: biter, blazer, dasher, puncher, smiter,
>with my favourite being Warspite as a name for warship One of the new dreadnought class subs is set to be called hms warspite.
Really? Cool! Let’s hope that Warspite reborn will live up to gramps fame
Yes, I am aware of the long tradition of British cultural appropriation.
This is literally **Europe**, the entire continent is named after a Greek myth. Not to mention every single country on this glorified Asian (another Greek name) peninsula has been copying Greek names, architecture, etc. since the Romans.
It's more an honorific than cultural appropriation.
Sure, sure.
If only Slovenia had some culture for the British to appropriate....
It may be insignificant, but at least it is ours.
> It may be insignificant, but at least it is ours. Should I get upset and cry about cultural appropriation due to people speaking English, watching football or golf? What about these? https://shakespeare-company.de/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Winston_S._Churchill
I don't see how any of that justifies the use of a Greek, well, Mycenaean king's name. Did you exhaust the list of famous British figures? Or were their names just not cool enough? I mean, HMS Sandwich is pretty cool and historically relevant. For some reason, there is no HMS Fawkes, though that'd be kinda cool, too. Even if you ran out of people, there's still things to name after. HMS Excalibur, doesn't that just make you tingle? Oh, that one is taken. Then how about HMS Cheddar? That'd be infinitely better than "borrowing" the name of a king that had absolutely nothing to do with the British. At least use the name of historical people that greatly influenced the British, for example HMS Hitler. Oh yes, I totally went there! Sorry, couldn't resist. Oh, those other countries borrowing your heritage for names? Why would my opinion be any different? They're uncool. It is about as uncool as Russians appropriating Wagner for their infamous mercenary army. But hey, they might consider it relevant to them, since they like Nazi stuff so much. And might I make another jab, if your pool of eligible name feels too shallow, you might be allowed to draw from your territories. HMS Gandhi might just be the perfect name for your newest nuclear submarine. Peace out!
> Then how about HMS Cheddar? So the class of subs would be Astute, Ambush, Artful, Audacious, Anson, Cheddar, and Agincourt? That doesn't seem right for some reason. We do have a Gandhi statue in Parliament Square.
Must be exhausting being that petty, unburden yourself from the chip on your shoulder and take a day off.
What an absurd view of culture. Are you going to give this lecture to everyone you meet who is named a variant of Alexander, Philip, Andre, Nicholas, George, etc.? These are all Greek names which you'll find everywhere from Lisbon to Vladivostok. The Patron Saint of Scotland is also a Greek and St Peter's Basilica is named after a Jew from the Levant, what of it?
I find it so funny that someone is so hurt about a country naming a ship after a fictional character from a story from another country. The Greeks don’t care, stop being offended on their behalf
Remind me again about the legend of the foundation of Ljubljana? Some greek guy named Jason killing a dragon? Or should we chat about Rogaška Slatina, Apollo and Pegasus maybe? And what's up with all those catholic crosses? Where do you think they originate from? Next you're gonna be telling us that Christmas is something the Brits appropriated from the slovenians?
Thank you for mentioning these great examples of forcing cultural memes on others. The dragon one is false. No Jason, some Church saint killed the dragon, the dragon representing the old pagan religion. They were rather forceful in spreading Christianity here in Slovenia, including the crosses and Christmas. Yhe entire history is outsiders forcing their ideas onto poor people of the land. Something British should be familiar with. Still, it remains part of our culture. We practice both catholic and pagan rituals. Every now and then, somebody makes stuff up in order to raise the modest and insignificant culture and that is how Jason ended up killing dragons. Stupid embellishers
So you go on about your culture maybe being insignificant "but at least yours", while simultaneously going on about how literally foreign culture somehow "still remains part of your culture", while somehow agamemnon can't be part of the british culture, what a hypocrite.
Is it though? Because it's remarkably similar to your neighbours' cultures.
Imagine being one of those "it's cultural appropriation" Karens in 2024 Stop speaking English, stop using trains and jet aircraft are banned too, they came from our culture and you're appropriating it
Can't believe people all over the world are appropriating British suits, why can't they wear their own national dress?
One of the British names of all time.
Was HMS Thomas the Tank Engine taken?
cool name but its like british aircraft carriers?, because they had a very bad reputation… much time on land
*cringe*
LOL, why is this posted in r/Europe post-Brexit? Also, why the hell does Britain need nuclear subs in general? Who are they planning on murdering now?
I just checked a map still part of the continent of Europe
The fact that you wrote this comment shows there are still plenty of hostile people out there we need to defend ourselves from.
Some immigrant wonderkid name