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 ...

The Astute-class hunter-killer submarine planned to be called HMS Agincourt will now be HMS Achilles. One of the Royal Navy’s seven Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine moves through ...

The Royal Navy has announced it is changing the name of a new submarine from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles ... first announced the name Agincourt in 2018 for the under-construction vessel, the seventh ...

The Astute-class attack submarine, which is still under construction, was due to be named in honour of Henry V’s 1415 victory over the French. But the vessel will now be called HMS Achilles ...