A viewer notes that the Admiral class included names such as Hood, Anson, Rodney, and Collingwood but never Byng. A joke about the modern search-engine name precedes the historical reason: the elder Byng's successes were overshadowed by the actions and fate of his son. That association made Byng unsuitable within later Royal Navy naming conventions. The brief answer shows how institutional memory selects which admirals are commemorated and which reputations become liabilities.
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Why Byng did not join the Admiral-class names
The absence of Byng from an Admiral-class naming list shows how a later family reputation could outweigh an earlier admiral's successes.