It was during a Tory rally on July 20, 1957, organized to commemorate 25 years of public service by Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, ...

The seventh and final Astute-class submarine was to be called HMS Agincourt, but it will now be named HMS Achilles instead. Grant Shapps, the former defence secretary, said the name change was ...

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 ...

The vessel – an Astute-class submarine which is currently under construction in Barrow-in-Furness – was due to be named HMS Agincourt after an English victory over the French in 1415.

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 ...

The submarine was due to be named HMS Agincourt, but will now follow HMS Agamemnon's lead, being named after a warrior from the Iliad. The UK Royal Navy (RN) has changed the name of the final Astute ...

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 ...

The Royal Navy has been accused of renaming new attack submarine HMS Agincourt to avoid upsetting the French - sparking claims of 'craven and contemptible surrender'. The seventh Astute Class boat ...

A decision to rename nuclear-powered submarine HMS Agincourt is “woke nonsense”, a former defence secretary said. The Astute-class attack submarine, which is still under construction ...

HMS Agincourt is the fleet’s sixth vessel and was named after the 1415 victory by outnumbered English archers. A move to rebrand the under-construction hunter-killer was thrown out last year as ...

The Royal Navy has announced it is changing the name of a new submarine from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles, in a move branded "woke nonsense" by former Defence Secretary Grant Shapps. It follows ...