The submarine was due to be named HMS Agincourt, but will now follow HMS Agamemnon's lead, being named after a warrior from the Iliad. The UK Royal Navy (RN) has changed the name of the final Astute ...

He added that top military officials gave their blessing for the ships - alongside HMS Northumberland and other assets - to be decommissioned. Lieutenant General Sir Robert Magowan KCB CBE said at ...

Lieutenant General Sir Robert Magowan KCB CBE previously told a defence select committee that both vessels, alongside HMS Northumberland, were “no longer seaworthy”, so the government was ...

The £500m Labour Government defence cuts also includes the Type 23 frigate HMS Northumberland, two tankers, RFA Wave Knight and Wave Ruler, Watchkeeper WK450 Mk1 drones, 14 CH-47 Chinook helicopters ...

The £500m Labour Government defence cuts also includes the Type 23 frigate HMS Northumberland, two tankers, RFA Wave Knight and Wave Ruler, Watchkeeper WK450 Mk1 drones, 14 CH-47 Chinook ...

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HMS Agincourt is the fleet’s sixth vessel and was named after the 1415 victory by outnumbered English archers. A move to rebrand the under-construction hunter-killer was thrown out last year as ...

The seventh and final Astute-class submarine was to be called HMS Agincourt, but it will now be named HMS Achilles instead. Grant Shapps, the former defence secretary, said the name change was ...

The cuts come ahead of the Ministry of Defence's Strategic Defence ReviewPA The cuts extend beyond HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark, including the Army's Watchkeeper drone programme and HMS Northumberland.

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 ...