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 ...

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship torpedoed and sunk by Nazi Germany was definitively confirmed by Brazil’s navy ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Georgian-fronted, grade II listed property in Cheshire has been transformed into supported living accommodation. The building, originally constructed in 1820 for Mayor John Bradshaw, has been ...

Memorial Service for wreck of WW2 HMS Exeter HMS Kent, one of the Royal Navy's most modern warships, looked back at history as she remembered one of her illustrious World War II predecessors last ...

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 ...

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 ...

The airport was first used by the U.S. Army Air Force for training during World War II (date unknown for photo). [Courtesy: Curt and Eric Schutze] The airfield’s origins are rooted in World War ...

The Royal Navy has announced it is changing the name of a new submarine from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles, in a move branded "woke nonsense" by former Defence Secretary Grant Shapps. It follows ...