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 sub, ...

AN EX-Nato commander has blasted woke Navy chiefs for renaming a submarine to avoid upsetting the French. HMS Agincourt is the fleet’s sixth vessel and was named after the 1415 victory by ...

This week, it was claimed that King Charles III had personally intervened in the naming of a new Royal Navy submarine which ...

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Rear Admiral Chris Parry ... A previous attempt to rename HMS Agincourt was blocked by then defence secretary Grant Shapps. Mr Shapps last night told the Sun: 'Renaming the Agincourt is nothing ...

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 under ...

Royal Navy chiefs have come under fire for dropping plans to name a new attack submarine after a battle in which England defeated France.

He worked in defence intelligence in 1986-87 and, as a rear-admiral, was senior naval member ... to retain the loyalty of the survivors in the HMS Sheffield Association. He displayed some skill ...

Rear Admiral “Sandy” Woodward ... But a Ministry of Defence spokesman said: “After 25 years of service HMS Invincible was decommissioned nearly six years ago and having reached the end ...

The minister for defence procurement, Maria Eagle, confirmed that HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark will be bartered away after being officially retired in November. Shadow defence secretary, James ...