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 ...

Charles reportedly vetoed the name — originally approved by Queen Elizabeth II — of the Royal Navy submarine which is now called HMS Achilles. His Majesty was reportedly concerned that naming ...

An earlier HMS Achilles was involved against French and Spanish fleets during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. It is not the first time the Royal family have have been enatngled in a diplomatic storm.

HMS Bulwark and HMS Albion may be sold for just £20m for both ships. The Albion-class landing platform docks were officially retired from the Royal Navy fleet in November by defence secretary ...

A Royal Navy bigwig has torn the Government to shreds after Britain’s latest submarine was given a last-minute name change to avoid upsetting the French. HMS Agincourt is now set to be rebranded ...

The loss of battleship HMS Royal Oak – and two thirds of her crew – continues to resonate more than 85 years after she was torpedoed in her wartime anchorage of Scapa Flow. Ever since Orkney has been ...

Royal Navy: Army soldiers deployed to Japan for major exercise in wake of HMS Prince of Wales arrival Sign up for FREE Portsmouth News newsletters Japan operates F-35A aircraft - the conventional ...

I was recently lucky enough to get hold of some reclaimed oak from the HMS Victory restoration. There's a bit of it floating around at the moment (no pun intended), but that's not going to last ...

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 crew of the Royal Navy warship HMS Portland returned home to a rapturous welcome in Plymouth on Friday after a successful seven-month deployment to West Africa, the Falkland Islands and the ...

(WXYZ) — Winter Blast Royal Oak is back and returning to Downtown Royal Oak for three days in 2025, taking place from January 31 through February 2, organizers ...

Half of the latter died after the British nuclear-powered submarine HMS Conqueror torpedoed and sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano on May 2 in the most controversial military action of ...