HMS Achilles: how are Royal Navy ship names chosen? According to the UK government, the Ships' Names and Badges does not choose the names, rather having the role of an advisory body.

HMS Northumberland monitors undeclared submarine activity, and protects the UK's nuclear deterrent, among other roles. The ship's chaplain, Reverend Dr Louisa Pittman, told the BBC that the four ...

The tall ship began to die early Monday morning in the hurricane-ravaged waters off the North Carolina coast. One of the HMS Bounty’s generators failed. Water flooded everywhere. The 180-foot ...

Nov. 6, 2012 — -- Crew members from the HMS Bounty, who were rescued as the tall ship sank of the coast of North Carolina last week, are speaking for the first time about their experience as ...

The remains of the historic HMS Endeavour have been definitively located at a site near Newport, Rhode Island. The ship was the first European vessel to reach Australia's east coast.

King Charles was involved in a decision to change the name of a new royal submarine from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles, a move that was branded "woke nonsense" by former defence secretary Grant ...

HMS Terror, a long-lost ship that vanished while searching for the Northwest Passage, sparking one of the world’s great maritime mysteries, has been found almost 170 years on. The Arctic ...

The decision to rename the Royal Navy’s HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles has sparked considerable debate, and rightly so. It feels like an unnecessary act of self-censorship, bending over backwards to ...

King Charles stepped in to overturn the £1.5billion submarine's original name, which had been given the green light by Queen Elizabeth in 2018, and rename it HMS Achilles ...

The ship's crew was composed of men such as 19-year-old Arthur Hart, a mechanic, whose body today is riddled with more than 100 tumours, and his shipmate Bob Malcolmson, who in 1973 developed ...

KING Charles ordered the Navy to rename HMS Agincourt, in a move dubbed “pathetic”. The monarch made the intervention to avoid upsetting the French, sources told The Sun. The nuclear-powered ...