HMS Avenger was a wooden paddle wheel frigate of the Royal Navy launched in 1845 and wrecked with heavy loss of life in 1847. Avenger was built to a design...
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have been named HMS Avenger: HMS Avenger was a sloop-of-war launched in 1778 as the 8-gun fireship HMS Lucifer. She was renamed HMS Avenger on her conversion...
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HMS Birkenhead, also referred to as HM Troopship Birkenhead or Steam Frigate Birkenhead, was one of the first iron-hulled ships built for the Royal Navy...
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Acton Bell in England. December 20 – British Royal Navy steam frigate HMS Avenger (1845) is wrecked on the Sorelle Rocks in the Mediterranean Sea with the...
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classed just as a 'steam vessel' HMS Avenger 1845 – first class HMS Birkenhead (ex-Vulcan) iron-hulled frigate 1845 – second class, launched as a frigate...
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aircraft carrier HMS Victorious for service in the British Pacific Fleet and comprised 849 Naval Air Squadron flying the Grumman Avenger torpedo bombers...
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marketed by Tom Smith of London. 20 December – Royal Navy steam frigate HMS Avenger (1845) is wrecked on the Sorelle Rocks in the Mediterranean Sea with the...
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Corsair, along with 849 Naval Air Squadron, which operated Grumman Avenger, departed from HMS Victorious. The following day, the latter squadron proceeded to...
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(HMS Nabthorpe) on 22 January 1946. 820 Naval Air Squadron, a Torpedo, Bomber, Reconnaissance Squadron, disembarked its Grumman Avenger Mk.II from HMS Indefatigable...
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Squadron, which operated the Grumman Avenger, an American torpedo bomber aircraft, 1843 Naval Air Squadron and 1845 Naval Air Squadron, which were both...
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Its stay was short and it embarked in the escort carrier HMS Striker on 4 November. 1845 Naval Air Squadron, a Single Seat Fighter Squadron formed here...
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September 1942) HMS Avenger (3 - 25 September 1942) Royal Naval Air Station Hatston (HMS Sparrowhawk) (25 September - 16 October 1942) HMS Avenger (16 October...
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aircraft. In December 1944 1845 NAS embarked in the Ruler-class escort carrier HMS Slinger (D26) and 1843 NAS embarked in HMS Arbiter (D31), another Ruler-class...
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HMS Nabthorpe: HMS Arbiter HMS Chaser HMS Glory HMS Indefatigable HMS Indomitable HMS Implacable HMS Ruler HMS Slinger HMS Speaker HMS Venerable HMS Victorious...
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fourth-worst tragedy in the history of the Great Lakes. The Phoenix was built in 1845 in Cleveland, Ohio or Buffalo, New York.: 47 It was built with the then-new...
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The Terror (TV series) (section HMS Erebus)
Surgeon Harry Goodsir, HMS Erebus Adam Nagaitis as Caulker's Mate Cornelius Hickey, HMS Terror Ian Hart as Ice Master Thomas Blanky, HMS Terror Nive Nielsen...
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followed by even bigger ships like HMS Retribution and HMS Terrible. Other steam frigates first class, like HMS Avenger were a bit smaller. Only five first...
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of the fifth-rate HMS Assurance before being promoted to commander on 21 May 1794 and being given command of the sloop HMS Avenger later that month. Ogle...
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Falklands War (section Sinking of HMS Sheffield)
attacking Skyhawks were shot down by Sea Dart missiles fired by HMS Exeter, with HMS Avenger claiming to have shot down the Exocet missile with her 4.5" gun...
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capabilities of the RN In 2011, the Jetstream aircraft were replaced with Avenger T1 aircraft, modified Beechcraft King Air 350ERs,consisting of a pilot...
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1943 at the Naval Air Station Quonset Point, Rhode Island with Grumman Avenger Is. It returned to the UK and provided anti-surface vessel and anti-submarine...
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Grumman Avenger AS4 torpedo bomber (December 1952 - April 1958) Grumman Avenger ECM.6 torpedo bomber (November 1954 - April 1958) Grumman Avenger AS5 torpedo...
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was equipped with 12 Grumman Avenger I torpedo bombers. Two months later the squadron embarked on the escort carrier HMS Ravager and was transferred to...
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moved from Boyne to the recently captured ship-sloop HMS Avenger. Fitzgerald served on board Avenger until she returned to England under Edward Griffith...
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The squadron operated the Grumman Avenger and then the Fairey Gannet during 1954 and 1956, aboard HMS Centaur and HMS Bulwark, before the decision was...
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unit, equipped with twelve Grumman Avenger Mk.II torpedo bomber aircraft, which embarked aboard the escort carrier HMS Rajah on 29 June. After the squadrons...
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the squadron embarked on Avenger and provided fighter cover on the Algerian invasion beaches. While returning to the UK Avenger was torpedoed and sunk by...
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April 1956 at HMS Gannet, RNAS Eglinton, Northern Ireland, as a Radar Jamming Trials Unit. It operated with four modified Grumman Avenger aircraft, undertaking...
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815 Naval Air Squadron (section Avenger and Gannet)
Grumman Avengers, which were replaced with Fairey Gannets, the last fixed-wing aircraft of the squadron when it disbanded at RNAS Culdrose (HMS Seahawk)...
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HMS Rodney was a two-deck 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1833, she was broken up in 1884. Rodney was launched on 18...
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