but HMS Achilles is, quite simply, a better name The Royal Navy’s decision to abandon plans to call a new nuclear-powered submarine “HMS Agincourt” – apparently over fears it might offend ...

HMS Agincourt is now set to be rebranded ‘HMS Achilles’ after Keir Starmer feared ... the woke re-naming exercise now claim the previous plan would have been inappropriate “in light of ...

But the boat will now be called HMS Achilles, a famous name in Royal Navy history. Amid speculation the change was prompted to avoid offending the French, former defence secretary Grant Shapps ...

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 ...

claiming the move undermines "British heritage".Martin expressed his frustration at the submarine's new designation as HMS Achilles, questioning why a "great" name needed to be changed at all.FULL ...

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 ...