page_title: Samuel Beckett-class offshore patrol vessel
section_title: Names
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel Beckett-class offshore patrol vessel / Names
caption_attribution_description: LÉ William Butler Yeats in Cobh harbour
context_page_description: The Samuel Beckett-class offshore patrol vessel is a class of offshore patrol vessels ordered by the Irish Naval Service from October 2010. The first vessel is named Samuel Beckett and was commissioned in May 2014. Construction on this first vessel commenced in November 2011, A further three vessels were named James Joyce, William Butler Yeats and George Bernard Shaw, and delivered in 2015, 2016 and 2018 respectively.
context_section_description: The first two ships were named for Samuel Beckett and James Joyce, as disclosed in July 2013 by the then Minister for Defence Alan Shatter in Dáil Éireann. This decision to name the ships after literary figures, seen as controversial in some quarters, saw a break from the tradition of naming Irish Naval vessels after women in Irish mythology.
  In July 2015, the then Minister for Defence Simon Coveney declared that the third vessel would be named after William Butler Yeats. At the keel-laying ceremony for the fourth vessel, on 28 February 2017, then Minister of State at the Department of Defence Paul Kehoe announced that the vessel would be named after George Bernard Shaw.
caption: William Butler Yeats in July 2016
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