Grant Shapps, a former Conservative member of the U.K.’s Parliament and defense secretary, called a recent submarine name ...

The controversial move not use the name Agincourt began more than a year ago, amid suspected concerns it would offend Nato ...

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said a cordon was set up while the unexploded ordnance, which was described by the ...

The decision to rename the Royal Navy’s HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles has sparked considerable debate, and rightly so. It ...

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.

The bomb was towed five miles from Southend Pier before being detonated Royal Navy bomb disposal experts have destroyed a World War Two device found in the wreck of a 17th Century warship.

The coast around Lilstock was used as part of a practice bombing range for the Royal Navy. Lilstock Range was once used as a Royal Navy firing range David Eccles, EDF Energy's Head of Stakeholder ...

The Navy bomb team were called to destroy the ... after a suspected German air-dropped bomb from World War II was discovered. Similarly, an unexploded bomb was found under a Plymouth house last ...

The names also represent the Royal Navy’s future vision ... and denying its use to major German warships for the rest of WW2. The action epitomises the raiding ethos driving the Royal Marines ...

TRIBUTES are being paid to war veteran Joseph Thomas who has died aged 99 and will have a memorial funeral service at York ...

One of the last surviving Royal Navy bomb disposal specialists from the Second World War has died at the age of 100. Boyd Salmon, who signed up as a rating at the age of 17, was part of the Royal ...

The captain of Britain’s biggest warship raised an emotional toast to his family this week as they marked 100 years’ ...