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    HMS Avon Vale (pennant number L06) was an escort destroyer of the Hunt Type II class. The Royal Navy ordered Avon Vale's construction three days after...
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  • SS Avila (1926) HMS Avon Vale (L06) HMS Bacchante (1901) HMS Barham (04) HMS Barrosa (D68) PS Barry (1907) HMS Basilisk (H11) SS Bata (1919) HMS Beagle (1909) HMS Beagle (H30)...
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    biggest engagement happened on 1 November, when two Hunt-class destroyers HMS Avon Vale and Wheatland were patrolling the coastal shipping routes south of Lussino...
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  • Operated in the Adriatic. Sunk by British Hunt-class destroyers HMS Avon Vale and HMS Wheatland south of Lussino on 1 November 1944. TA21: (ex-Insidioso...
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    planned landings in the south of France. While being deployed with HMS Avon Vale, on 1 November 1944, Wheatland engaged German surface craft south of...
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    (sunk by a mine on 23 March) HMS Beaufort HMS Dulverton HMS Hurworth HMS Avon Vale HMS Eridge HMS Heythrop (lost en route to submarine U-652 20 March) 15th...
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    men. Peony and HMS Avon Vale rescued the survivors. In the small hours of 24 December 1941 U-568 torpedoed and sank a sister ship, HMS Salvia, about 100...
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    16 July HMS Kelly (Leader) HMS Jupiter HMS Kipling HMS Jaguar HMS Jersey HMS Kipling HMS Avon Vale HMS Beaufort at Freetown HMS Dulverton HMS Eridge at...
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  • Partisans, the Royal Navy sortied two Type II Hunt-class destroyers, HMS Avon Vale and HMS Wheatland, from their base at the Ist Island at 17:00 on 1 November...
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    Schiaffino - Betasom - XI Gruppo Sommergibili Atlantici (in Italian) Ref "HMS Avon Vale, escort destroyer". Navalhistory.net. Retrieved 9 December 2012. "Viceroy...
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    Mediterranean; abandoning ship and later being rescued by British destroyer HMS Avon Vale. Cumming, who hailed from the gold mining town of Coolgardie, continued...
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  • combat vessel heavy cruiser USS Auk (AM-57) US auxiliary minesweeper HMS Avon Vale (L06) UK combat vessel destroyer USS Baldwin (DD-624) US combat vessel...
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  • convoy escort was augmented during the first few days by the destroyer Avon Vale and the submarine Clyde, and two ASW trawlers. They were joined during...
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  • with So through Sø". www.warsailors.com. Retrieved 20 April 2019. Ref "HMS Avon Vale, escort destroyer". Navalhistory.net. Retrieved 9 December 2012. "German...
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  • November 1944 An Urakaze-class destroyer that was sunk by HMS Wheatland and HMS Avon Vale off Pag, during the Action of 1 November 1944. Baron Gautsch...
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    1940 Brescia, pp. 136–37 Brescia, p. 137 Rohwer, pp. 312, 370 Ref "HMS Avon Vale, escort destroyer". Navalhistory.net. Retrieved 9 December 2012. Roberto...
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  • Group comprised HMS Convolvulus, HMS Deptford, HMS Gardenia, HMS Marigold, HMS Pentstemon, HMS Rhodedendron, HMS Samphire, HMS Stork and HMS Vetch (all  Royal...
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  • see the entry for 29 October 1941 ^ Force K comprised HMS Aurora, HMS Lance, HMS Lively and HMS Penelope (all  Royal Navy). ^ CKA are the Cyrillic letters...
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    Prunella Scales were patrons of Avon Navigation Trust (ANT), the charity that runs the River Avon from Stratford-upon-Avon to Tewkesbury. They both supported...
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    his wife in Stratford-upon-Avon Cemetery. The small township of Hodgson in the Maranoa Region, the locality of Hodgson Vale in the Toowoomba Region, and...
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    champagne bottle and swung it towards the bows. Unfortunately, the steam packet Avon had started to tow the ship into the harbour and the bottle fell about 10...
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    The Royal Navy Adriatic flotilla consisted of Aldenham, Atherstone, Avon Vale, Lamerton, Lauderdale, Wheatland, Wilton, Brocklesby and Quantock. In...
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    Wales Mineral Taff Vale Vale of Neath West Cornwall West Somerset Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway stations Bath Spa Bradford-on-Avon Bridgend Bridgwater...
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    refit, she once broke free from her moorings and cut off the bowsprit of HMS Blenheim. She departed for New York in May 1861 (her other potential port...
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    This initial flight was flown with Avon engines, the decision to perform the type's first flight with the Avon-equipped first prototype or the Nene-equipped...
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    flat clay vales, and chalk and limestone downland. The vales, with good irrigation, are home to the region's dairy agriculture. The Blackmore Vale was Thomas...
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  • Nossa Senhora de Bettencourt (c. 1700) - Discarded 1701? Nossa Senhora do Vale (c. 1701) - Discarded 1701? Nossa Senhora da Conceição 80 (c. 1701) - Discarded...
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    ISBN 978-0671536251. Watson, James; Dockery, Kevin (1993). Point Man. New York: Avon Books. ISBN 038071986X. US Navy SEAL Combat Manual (PDF). 1974. p. xvi. Archived...
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    vessels employed on East Coast convoy work, all the Type Is, the Type IIs Avon Vale, Blencathra and Liddesdale and the Type IIIs Bleasdale and Glaisdale were...
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  • Gustav Milne) New Place Shakespeare residence foundations in Stratford-upon-Avon (organizer Richard Kemp, leading archaeologist Kevin Colls) Artifacts of...
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