Four days previously the Graf Spee had been seriously damaged during the Battle of the River Plate by a British ... Harwood comprised of HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles, which were ...

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 ...

The monarch has personally ordered the renaming £1.5bn HMS Agincourt submarine ... boat in the Astute class is to be called Achilles. It received battle honours during the Second World War.

a reference to the English victory over the French at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. However, is now called HMS Achilles. “He didn't want to offend his French neighbours despite it being ...

The government in an act of Euro diplomacy is renaming its new nuclear submarine HMS Agincourt as HMS Achilles. In 1415 an English and Welsh army of about 11,000 men, most of them archers, defeated a ...