Perhaps someone in Whitehall received a verbal thrashing from our French friends when they discovered that the latest Astute Class submarine was to be named ... After all, their navy’s glorious ...

There will be no quotes from William Shakespeare’s play Henry V used as the motto for the Royal Navy’s seventh and final Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine. The boat, which is now under ...

The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group (CSG) wrapped up its port visit to Thailand on Friday. Carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) ...

Carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) pulled into Laem Chabang, Thailand, on Monday for a port visit after three weeks of ...

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 of the 80th anniversaries ...

A source told the newspaper: ‘The King personally stepped in and made it clear the name had to be changed because he didn’t want to upset the French.’ HMS Agincourt, an Astute-class hunter ...

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 ...

"I don't see the French ... Navy spokesperson said it was, "entirely appropriate to name a naval vessel after a great military victory". They added: "We take great care in naming our ships and ...

Another ship with the name took part in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, when the Royal Navy defeated a French and Spanish ... the seventh of the Astute Class submarines to be commissioned.

The vessel in question is an Astute-class submarine which in 2018 became the fleet’s sixth vessel to be named after the 1415 English victory over the French in the Battle of Agincourt. In a post late ...