Why calling a Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine 'HMS Achilles' is not 'woke nonsense'
We feel confident that France would not have been outraged if the submarine had been called HMS Agincourt, but HMS Achilles ...
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Renaming of HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles pre-dates Labour government
The controversial move not use the name Agincourt began more than a year ago, amid suspected concerns it would offend Nato ...
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Battle of the Falklands 1914: the search for the lost German battleships
HMS Canopus was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy missed the Battle of Coronel, but fired the first shots of the Battle of the Falklands Last December, in a spirit of remembrance and ...
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The Royal Navy’s Final Astute-class Submarine Is Being Renamed—And Britons Aren’t Happy
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 ...