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 ...
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 Shapps ...
This is also the second change, as the “in-work name” for the vessel had been Ajax until it was announced in 2018 that it would be named HMS Agincourt. “The 7th Astute-class submarine is to ...
This is a submarine that most people had no idea existed and that ... The Royal Navy has a proud tradition of commemorating historical victories, not erasing them. HMS Agincourt should have been ...
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 ...
This week, the nominal commander in chief of the U.K. armed forces directed that the Royal Navy’s newest upcoming nuclear attack submarine be renamed. HMS Agincourt will now be christened as HMS ...
HMS Agincourt, an Astute-class hunter-killer submarine, was originally announced by then-defence secretary Sir Gavin Williamson in 2018. It would have been the sixth Royal Navy vessel to have been ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kenneth Branagh in Agincourt. Picture: Alamy In a statement on X, the Navy said: "The 7th Astute-class submarine is to be named HMS Achilles, as approved by The King. "The name is appropriate in light ...
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 ...