French navy supply ship Jacques Chevallier arrives in Darwin as part of Frances Clemenceau mission in the Indo Pacific. Picture: Fia Walsh. From January 16 to 24 France led exercise La Perouse ...

The King intervened over the renaming of HMS Agincourt to avoid offending the French, it was claimed last ... by Queen Elizabeth II — of the Royal Navy submarine which is now called HMS Achilles.

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 Royal Navy revealed the King had approved its name being changed to HMS Achilles - itself an illustrious name in British military service. The 7th Astute-class submarine is to be named HMS ...

But Top Brass reheated their plan and have settled on Achilles because they do not want to remind the French of their defeat ... Only last year the Navy insisted it had "no intention to rename ...

Another ship with the name took part in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, when the Royal Navy defeated a French and Spanish fleet. Gavin Williamson, a Conservative former defence secretary ...

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Officials have reportedly now approved a Royal Navy request to change the name of HMS Agincourt to avoid offending the French. Yes, that’s right: military triumph is now apparently something to be ...

such as the first order for a transoceanic DriX (see the dedicated press releases on these two orders here: link to the press releases). In total, Exail Technologies achieved an order intake of ...

two sources in the budget committee said on Wednesday.Several media outlets have reported that a French shipbuilder is also been in the running for the order, worth some 2.2 billion euros ...