The idea that it is bad luck to rename a boat is a maritime superstition that endures in the Navy to this day. However, it ...

The seventh Astute Class boat was due to become the sixth vessel to be named after the 1415 battle, where Henry V routed the ...

We feel confident that France would not have been outraged if the submarine had been called HMS Agincourt, but HMS Achilles ...

The Royal Navy has been accused of renaming new attack submarine HMS Agincourt to avoid upsetting the French. The seventh ...

Unlike HMS Conqueror which sank the Argentine cruiser ARA Manuel Belgrano, Spartan did not fire in anger during the Falklands war, though she did provide valuable reconnaissance to the British ...

By 1914 the submarine was not a new weapon, having first been used 150 years earlier. By the start of WW1 all the major ...

The Land Cruiser has some intra-company competitors in the Lexus GX 550 (which is essentially a luxury version of the Land Cruiser) and the redesigned-for-2025 4Runner. It also competes with the ...

Former UK defence ministers claimed Monday that a decision by Britain's Royal Navy to rename a nuclear-powered submarine called HMS Agincourt had been taken to avoid offending France.

MONMOUTH's long connection with the Royal Navy has suffered a new blow – four years after the seventh warship named after the ...