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 ...

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 ...

Despite key components of the ship being unaffected ... is very densely populated with vessels on busy shipping routes. HMS Prince of Wales joins forces with USS Harry S Truman Sign up for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A previous vessel named HMS Achilles received battle honours during World War Two. Another ship with the name took part in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, when the Royal Navy defeated a French ...

Newcastle won a brilliant FA Cup tie, with the joy that peaked upon Tomoki Iwata’s howitzer initiated by Eddie Howe before the game kicked off. Well done everyone. “I think our team is a ...

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 following day, Japanese forces lost one of the world’s two biggest battleships, Musashi, to carrier planes of the U.S. Third Fleet, which in turn lost its light carrier Princeton.

Long-time Burlington resident and philanthropist Lois Jean Howe McClure died Sunday at 98. "She has personally enriched our cultural life in Vermont and furthered our understanding of Vermont history.