The government in an act of Euro diplomacy is renaming its new nuclear submarine HMS Agincourt as HMS Achilles. In 1415 an English and Welsh army of about 11,000 men, most of them archers, defeated a ...

The King intervened over the renaming of HMS Agincourt to avoid offending ... was considered more appropriate than Agincourt, which was a land battle, and stressed that an Achilles previously ...

KING Charles ordered the Navy to rename HMS Agincourt, in a move dubbed “pathetic ... “Achilles received battle honours during the Second World War. “The name was proposed by the Royal ...

The seventh and final Astute-class submarine, which is under construction for the Royal Navy, was due to be named HMS Agincourt. It would have become the sixth vessel to be named after the battle ...

The decision to rename the Royal Navy’s HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles has sparked considerable debate, and rightly so. It feels like an unnecessary act of self-censorship, bending over backwards to ...

Six ships have previously borne the name, earning six battle honours, including at the battles of River Plate and Okinawa.” Whether the final Astute-class ultimately sails as HMS Achilles or HMS ...

A decision to rename nuclear-powered submarine HMS Agincourt is “woke nonsense ... Six ships have previously borne the name, earning six battle honours, including the River Plate and Okinawa.

The seventh Astute Class boat was due to become the sixth vessel to be named after the 1415 battle ... Kenneth Branagh in Agincourt. Picture: Alamy In a statement on X, the Navy said: "The 7th ...

The Royal Navy has been accused of renaming new attack submarine HMS Agincourt to avoid upsetting ... the sixth vessel to be named after the 1415 battle, where Henry V routed the forces of France ...

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, was due to be ...

HMS Agincourt is the fleet’s sixth vessel and ... "Six ships have previously borne the name, earning six battle honours, including the River Plate and Okinawa." ...

While she participated in the Battle of Jutland, it has been reported she ... crew increased from 1,115 to 1,267 officers and men. HMS Agincourt survived the war, and afterward the British ...