HMS Leander, HMS Ajax, HMS Dido, HMS Penelope, HMS Aurora, HMS Euryalus, HMS Galatea, HMS Arethusa, HMS Naiad, HMS Cleopatra, HMS Phoebe, HMS Minerva, HMS Sirius, HMS Juno, HMS Argonaut, HMS Danae, HMS Hermione, HMS Andromeda, HMS Jupiter, HMS Bacchante, HMS Charybdis, HMS Scylla, HMS Achilles, HMS Diomede, HMS Apollo, HMS Ariadne
Definitely the best looking warship of the Cold War
So nice of UK to warn that they will steal more statues to greece if there’s a third world war
Well if you preferred the other option, you should’ve let us know…
HMS Elgin it is!
This will be the 6th HMS Agamemnon, a name with a proud history of Royal Navy service. Other famous names include HMS Cockchafer, HMS Buttercup and Snowflake. We remain undefeated in naming ships.
Because ram packed full of seamen, and goes down with sailors. Had to be a Greek name 🤷♂️
Naval history nerd here. It is not the first HMS Agamemnon in british service. The first dating back to 1781
If you wanted to keep having greek kings then you shouldn’t havesent your last one to us in a basket of oranges
Some of us remember Babylon 5
Should have chosen something from our own culture like Beowulf, Offa, or Penda. Agamemnon is still a cool name though, sorry Greeks
Appropriation is a strong word for “we appreciate your culture so much we name our navy vessels after it”
Also Agamemnon was the name of one of Lord Nelson’s ships.
I mean we could of course also name it “HMS WE don’t owe all european countries a massive amount of money”.
We’ve already got your marbles so needed to steal your mythology
We go take more delicious marbles with this.
A lot of warships in the neoclassical period were called after greek mythological figures, and not just in Britain.
Over there though, the names stuck, especially for bigger ships, and were used time and time again.
In the meantime, Britain created another naval tradition: trying to rationalize destroyer names and classes, at first they grouped the ships by speed and gave them letters to identify them, then they just decided to name new destroyers by the starting letter of the class. This stopped late WW2, and didn’t really involve smaller escort ships, or capital ships (and not even all destroyer classes, like Tribal).
For some reason though, they brought it back, first with frigates, then they stopped with frigates and they’re doing it with destroyers and submarines.
So there’s a chance they’re gonna pick a random weird name just because it starts with a certain letter.
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This is ancient Greek culture from when Greeks were still kinda based.
How about you appropriate some of that culture, Yannis ?
HMS Fish and Chips
Read it as HMS Armageddon which would’ve been significantly cooler than naming it after some ancient femboy Greek
Told you, Barrys don’t have a proper culture, they rely on stealing it! Looking at you, Barrys, with your British Museum…
More like AgaMEMEnon by the time we’re done with it, right fellows? Fellows…?
Anyway, the Greeks are free to name their wooden sailboat with one mounted crossbow the HMS Arthur in return.
It’s called cultural exchange
How many nuclear powered subs does the Hellenic Navy have?
Mate we have a list of shops named Agamemnon
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agamemnon
Hell we are building a shitty if called the Ajax.
Call it after the king that went to war over a girl. Fking losers
H.M.S XL Bully
We love nicking Greek things. Columns, Marbles now Submarine names. You should feel honoured.
We just like cultural appropriation, it’s in our nature as we very clearly have none of our own.
♪♫♬ Ich heiße Agamemnon, Aga-Aga-Aga-[Agamemnon](https://youtu.be/_Y_SPAtxX-w?feature=shared). ♬♪♫
UK navy is based but that’s a shit name
Dimitrios will be seething when he discovers the old [Leander](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leander-class_frigate) class frigates then:
HMS Leander, HMS Ajax, HMS Dido, HMS Penelope, HMS Aurora, HMS Euryalus, HMS Galatea, HMS Arethusa, HMS Naiad, HMS Cleopatra, HMS Phoebe, HMS Minerva, HMS Sirius, HMS Juno, HMS Argonaut, HMS Danae, HMS Hermione, HMS Andromeda, HMS Jupiter, HMS Bacchante, HMS Charybdis, HMS Scylla, HMS Achilles, HMS Diomede, HMS Apollo, HMS Ariadne
Definitely the best looking warship of the Cold War
https://preview.redd.it/fp6www6q19wc1.jpeg?width=982&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=82dc34ce3030d82a6c6f23cb19726f64b4d3debc
Should be called HMS Elgin
So nice of UK to warn that they will steal more statues to greece if there’s a third world war
Well if you preferred the other option, you should’ve let us know…
HMS Elgin it is!
This will be the 6th HMS Agamemnon, a name with a proud history of Royal Navy service. Other famous names include HMS Cockchafer, HMS Buttercup and Snowflake. We remain undefeated in naming ships.
Because ram packed full of seamen, and goes down with sailors. Had to be a Greek name 🤷♂️
Naval history nerd here. It is not the first HMS Agamemnon in british service. The first dating back to 1781
If you wanted to keep having greek kings then you shouldn’t havesent your last one to us in a basket of oranges
Some of us remember Babylon 5
Should have chosen something from our own culture like Beowulf, Offa, or Penda. Agamemnon is still a cool name though, sorry Greeks
Appropriation is a strong word for “we appreciate your culture so much we name our navy vessels after it”
Also Agamemnon was the name of one of Lord Nelson’s ships.
I mean we could of course also name it “HMS WE don’t owe all european countries a massive amount of money”.
We’ve already got your marbles so needed to steal your mythology
We go take more delicious marbles with this.
A lot of warships in the neoclassical period were called after greek mythological figures, and not just in Britain.
Over there though, the names stuck, especially for bigger ships, and were used time and time again.
In the meantime, Britain created another naval tradition: trying to rationalize destroyer names and classes, at first they grouped the ships by speed and gave them letters to identify them, then they just decided to name new destroyers by the starting letter of the class. This stopped late WW2, and didn’t really involve smaller escort ships, or capital ships (and not even all destroyer classes, like Tribal).
For some reason though, they brought it back, first with frigates, then they stopped with frigates and they’re doing it with destroyers and submarines.
So there’s a chance they’re gonna pick a random weird name just because it starts with a certain letter.
HMS Napoleon where ?
I imagine the ship coming with speakers, [constantly playing this](https://youtu.be/ujMxXOHJloI?si=ZOdN21hfV4bmrN_k).
Mid in Greece, made better in Britain. Par for the course.
Simps.
Ah yes Agamemnon famous british king…
Least Gyroboo Royal Navy ship naming convention