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'It's part of our heritage!' Martin Daubney left outraged at 'insane' decision by King Charles to rename historic submarine through fear of 'offending French'
Martin expressed his frustration at the submarine's new designation as HMS Achilles, questioning why a "great" name needed to be changed at all. King Charles personally intervened to rename the £ ...
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Battleship Graf Spee Nazi eagle must be sold, orders Uruguayan court
HMS Exeter and HMS Achilles (New Zealand) finally caught the Graf von Spee, which then decided to scuttle the pocket battleship.
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78 years ago, the British won a surprise victory over Nazi Germany in the first major naval battle of World War II
closing in with heavy cruiser HMS Exeter and light cruisers HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles on December 13. The crew of the Achilles was 60% New Zealanders, whose country would not form its own navy ...
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Memorial service at wreck of River Plate Battle HMS Exeter
HMS Exeter together with HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles made up a flotilla operating in the South Atlantic from the Falkland Islands that in December 1939 surprised and put an end to the German pocket ...