The world's most advanced hunter-killer submarine, HMS Anson, £1.3bn of both naval stealth and striking power – able to gather vital intelligence, protect other Royal Navy vessels from threats ...

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 ...

This is Epic History's guide to HMS Victory, one of the most famous warships in history, and flagship of Vice Admiral Nelson at his decisive victory over the Franco-Spanish Combined Fleet at ...

The boat, which is now under construction at Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, was slated to be HMS Agincourt—and would ... “[Royal Navy] ship names are decided by a committee of senior members ...

But the vessel will now be called HMS Achilles, a famous name in Royal Navy history. Amid speculation the change was prompted to avoid offending the French, former defence secretary Grant Shapps ...

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 ...

A previous HMS Achilles, a Leander Class cruiser, was part of a Royal Navy squadron which fought the German pocket battleship Graf Spee at the battle of the River Plate off South America in December ...

Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera HMS Pinafore is a hilarious tale of love, honour and duty. Josephine, the daughter of Captain Corcoran, falls for lowly sailor Ralph Rackstraw. However ...

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 ...

Officials at USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park recently welcomed a new executive director. Commander Mark Fields began his new job at the battleship at the start of the year. He says each day ...

That was UK Defence Secretary John Healey’s defiant warning to Russia's President Vladimir Putin after his spy ship was spotted ... The UK sent two Royal Navy ships, HMS Somerset and HMS Tyne ...

HMS Unicorn, Scotland's oldest ship, has received a £796,000 grant toward the cost of moving it to a new dry dock. The 201-year-old vessel is being relocated as part of the Project Safe Haven ...