The Royal Navy has announced it is changing the name of a new submarine from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles, in a move branded ...

The UK Royal Navy (RN) has changed the name of the final Astute class nuclear-powered submarines to HMS Achilles.

The seventh Astute Class boat was due to become the sixth vessel to be named after the 1415 battle, where Henry V routed the ...

There will be no quotes from William Shakespeare’s play Henry V used as the motto for the Royal Navy’s seventh and final Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine. The boat, which is now under ...

There had previously been suggestions it could be named Ajax. The submarine is being built at the BAE Systems shipyard in Barrow A Navy statement said the name change had been under discussion for ...

The Royal Navy has been accused of renaming new attack submarine HMS Agincourt to avoid upsetting the French. The seventh ...

The Royal Navy has confirmed one of its submarines built in Barrow has been renamed as the HMS Achilles. Astute Class boats are the largest and most advanced attack submarines that have ever been ...

The battle of the River Plate actually began December 13, 1939 when the Royal Navy group stationed in the Falkland Islands, light cruisers HMS Exeter and HMS Achilles and HMS Ajax from New Zealand ...

Four days previously the Graf Spee had been seriously damaged during the Battle of the River Plate by a British fleet under Admiral Henry Harwood comprised of HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS ...