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 ...

Royal Navy chiefs have come under fire for dropping plans to name a new attack submarine after the Battle of Agincourt, in which England defeated France. The seventh and final Astute-class ...

The vessel was to be named after the Battle of Agincourt in the Hundred Years’ War, in which the French suffered a heavy defeat against an English and Welsh Army led by Henry V. The name ...

Agincourt refers to a battle England won against France in 1415, as part of the Hundred Years' War. The move was also called "woke" and "pathetic" by another former Tory defence minister ...

A decision to rename nuclear-powered submarine HMS Agincourt is “woke nonsense ... Six ships have previously borne the name, earning six battle honours, including the River Plate and Okinawa.

Six ships have previously borne the name, earning six battle honours, including the River Plate and Okinawa." Agincourt inspired Shakespeare’s Henry V — famously played by Kenneth Branagh in a 1989 ...

The seventh and final Astute-class submarine, which is under construction for the Royal Navy, was due to be named HMS Agincourt. It would have become the sixth vessel to be named after the battle ...

King Charles personally ordered the renaming of Navy submarine HMS Agincourt to avoid upsetting ... construction hunter-killer sub after the 1415 battle would remind the French of their defeat ...

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