The seventh Astute Class boat was due to become the sixth vessel to be named after the 1415 battle, where Henry V routed the ...
We feel confident that France would not have been outraged if the submarine had been called HMS Agincourt, but HMS Achilles ...
This week, it was claimed that King Charles III had personally intervened in the naming of a new Royal Navy submarine which had been agreed under his mother Queen Elizabeth II. The vessel – an ...
The Royal Navy has been accused of renaming new attack submarine HMS Agincourt to avoid upsetting the French. The seventh ...
Warships are a critical component of any military, but some ships were designed to intimidate through their sheer size. Here ...
A floating naval museum inside Europe’s largest WWII-era cruiser, HMS Belfast is one of the most significant battleships to have survived the Second World War. With nine huge decks, including ...
Former UK defence ministers claimed Monday that a decision by Britain's Royal Navy to rename a nuclear-powered submarine called HMS Agincourt had been taken to avoid offending France.
The last British submarine known to have severed a cable was HMS Conqueror in 1982. Fresh from firing the torpedoes that sank ...
Unlike HMS Conqueror which sank the Argentine cruiser ARA Manuel Belgrano, Spartan did not fire in anger during the Falklands war, though she did provide valuable reconnaissance to the British ...
By 1914 the submarine was not a new weapon, having first been used 150 years earlier. By the start of WW1 all the major ...
Despite the odds heavily against him, Cradock went into battle and Graf Spee had an easy victory, destroying two armored cruisers for just three men injured. The Royal Navy lost HMS Good Hope and ...