At that time, the Ministry of Defence signed a £1.5 billion contract to build the seventh Astute-class hunter-killer submarine, which was to be called HMS Agincourt. The King reportedly intervened ...
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 ...
The Royal Navy has announced it is changing the name of a new submarine from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles, in a move branded "woke nonsense" by former Defence Secretary Grant Shapps. It follows ...
Grant Shapps, a former Conservative member of the U.K.’s Parliament and defense secretary, called a recent submarine name change by the Royal Navy “woke nonsense” to avoid offending the French.
In a related event last November, a Royal Navy submarine surfaced near a Russian spy ship loitering over critical undersea infrastructure in the English Channel, demonstrating the Navy's vigilance ...
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 ...