The vessel was to be named after the Battle of Agincourt in the Hundred Years’ War, in which the French suffered a heavy defeat against an English and Welsh Army led by Henry V. The name ...

King Charles personally ordered the renaming of Navy submarine HMS Agincourt to avoid upsetting ... hunter-killer sub after the 1415 battle would remind the French of their defeat to the British.

The Royal Navy has been accused of renaming new attack submarine HMS Agincourt ... the French. The seventh Astute Class boat was due to become the sixth vessel to be named after the 1415 battle ...

The decision to rename the Royal Navy’s HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles has sparked considerable debate, and rightly so. It feels like an unnecessary act of self-censorship, bending over backwards to ...

was due to be named HMS Agincourt. It would have become the sixth vessel to be named after the battle which took place in October 1415 and saw the English, led by Henry V, defeat a larger French ...

and followed reports of concern within the Ministry of Defence that the original name for the vessel may have offended the French. Agincourt refers to a battle England won against France in 1415 ...

The Royal Navy has been accused of renaming new attack submarine HMS Agincourt to avoid upsetting the French - sparking claims ... to be named after the 1415 battle, where Henry V routed the ...

Six ships have previously borne the name, earning six battle honours, including the River Plate and Okinawa." Agincourt inspired Shakespeare’s Henry V — famously played by Kenneth Branagh in a 1989 ...

Royal Navy chiefs have come under fire for dropping plans to name a new attack submarine after the Battle of Agincourt ... of a fear of offending the French government. Sir Gavin Williamson ...