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King Charles personally intervened to rename the £1.5billion Royal Navy submarine, it has been reported. The monarch ordered the change from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles over concerns the ...
The UK Royal Navy has changed the name of the seventh and final Astute-class nuclear powered attack submarine from HMS ...
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 ...
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 ...
The decision to rename the Royal Navy’s HMS Agincourt ... This is a submarine that most people had no idea existed and that even fewer will ever encounter. The vast majority of the public would not ...
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 ...
The Astute-class hunter-killer submarine planned to be called HMS Agincourt will now be HMS Achilles. One of the Royal Navy’s seven Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine moves through ...
This submarine name change might seem a peripheral ... On that point, would the French really care about the name HMS Agincourt? I think not. For one, jesting between France and the U.K. is ...
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 ...