How about HMS Backpedal for the new Royal Navy submarine? | Letters

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Never mind the possibility of offending the French by naming a submarine HMS Agincourt, Emma Brockes (

Digested week, 31 January

). What is often conveniently forgotten is that

Agincourt (1415)

was a strictly English victory. Scotland was on the other side, allied with France. Naming a vessel of the British Royal Navy after a defeat for a significant part of Britain seems odd, to say the least.

If the Royal Navy was minded to name a vessel Agincourt, perhaps it could restore the balance by calling another one

Castillon

, the 1453 Auld Alliance rout of a much larger English force that brought an end at last to the hundred years war. Curiously absent from the history syllabus in my English school.

Rosalind Mitchell


Edinburgh

• The Royal Navy could probably power HMS Agincourt with the furious backpedalling of anti-woke Tory MPs after it was revealed that King Charles, rather than the Labour government, had

instigated the name change

to Achilles.

John Rushton


Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire

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