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 ...

Rolls-Royce has announced the signing of the biggest contract in its history with the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense ...

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 ...

HMS Victorious, built in Barrow, will return to the Royal Navy after a £560m life extension programme. Vanguard-class nuclear submarine HMS Victorious was launched in 1993. She is one of the ...

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 ...

The Astute-class attack submarine, which is still under construction, was due to be named in honour of Henry V’s 1415 victory over the French. But the vessel will now be called HMS Achilles ...

After nearly 80 years of mystery, the wreck of the HMS Trooper, a British submarine that disappeared during World War II, was discovered in the depths of the Aegean Sea near the island of Donoussa.

King Charles personally ordered the renaming of HMS Agincourt, overruling his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, a source has claimed. The seventh and final Astute-class submarine, which is under ...

The Royal Navy’s Vanguard Class consists of four nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines – HMS Vanguard, Vengeance, Victorious and Vigilant. Like the Astute Class of submarines, nuclear power is ...

The Royal Navy has confirmed one of its submarines built in Barrow has been renamed as the HMS Achilles. Astute Class boats are the largest and most advanced attack submarines that have ever been ...