The UK Royal Navy has changed the name of the seventh and final Astute-class nuclear powered attack submarine from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles, citing the 80 th anniversary of VE and VJ days ...

HMS Exeter together with HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles made up a flotilla operating in the South Atlantic from the Falkland Islands that in December 1939 surprised and put an end to the German pocket ...

Martin expressed his frustration at the submarine's new designation as HMS Achilles, questioning why a "great" name needed to be changed at all. King Charles personally intervened to rename the £ ...

Instead the £1.5 billion sub will now be called HMS Achilles. The Daily Express has been told that the King made his intervention last year. His Majesty was understood to be concerned that naming ...

HMS Agincourt is now set to be rebranded ‘HMS Achilles’ after Keir Starmer feared offending the French by reminding them of the famous Henry V battle victory. Those involved in the woke re ...

closing in with heavy cruiser HMS Exeter and light cruisers HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles on December 13. The crew of the Achilles was 60% New Zealanders, whose country would not form its own navy ...

On the outbreak of war in 1939 she formed part of the South American Division with HMS Cumberland and, together with the light cruisers Ajax and Achilles, engaged the German pocket battleship ...