The name was changed to HMS Achilles reportedly over concerns that the original may have offended the French.

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 ...

HMS Agincourt is the fleet’s sixth vessel and was named after the 1415 victory by outnumbered English archers. A move to rebrand the under-construction hunter-killer was thrown out last year as ...

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 ...

KING Charles ordered the Navy to rename HMS Agincourt, in a move dubbed “pathetic”. The monarch made the intervention to avoid upsetting the French, sources told The Sun. The nuclear-powered ...

King Charles was involved in a decision to change the name of a new royal submarine from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles, a move that was branded "woke nonsense" by former defence secretary Grant ...