The Royal Navy has been accused of renaming new attack submarine HMS Agincourt to avoid upsetting the French - sparking claims of 'craven and contemptible surrender'. The seventh Astute Class boat was ...

The seventh and final Astute-class submarine was to be called HMS Agincourt, but it will now be named HMS Achilles - J Massey/Royal Navy Royal Navy chiefs have come under fire for dropping plans to ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 Shapps ...

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 ...

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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.

France managed to cope with the existence of the Royal Navy dreadnought HMS Agincourt during the First World and would have done so again (Picture: Hulton Archive) | Getty Images We feel confident ...

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, was due to be ...

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 outnumbered ...

17:15, Tue, Jan 28, 2025 Updated: 18:08, Tue, Jan 28, 2025 King Charles personally intervened to rename the submarine at the centre of a row over putting "woke nonsense" ahead of Britain's "proud" ...