Our father has reminisced how he had pretended that day that the Navy was conducting this ceremony in honour of both Prince Andrew and his son too. On another occasion our sister Heather was born while Dad was away at sea. Our father told Mom to name her for now and that they would both decide together when he arrived home. Some months passed on this cruise before my father arrived home. On this particular cruise, Dad had spent a lot of time around his ancestral home of Scotland.
Names are significant to parents when a child is born.
It is part of that parental sharing. The name usually has a heritage attached to it. Usually, the name is of some relative etc. In this instance, it reflected what was happening in their lives. For a sailor and his wife, the birth of a child, while he is away at sea, has a whole different significance.