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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • the Titanic and Great Disasters of the Sea. Eekelers, Dirk; Lettens, Jan. "HMS Coronation (north part) [+1691]". wrecksite. Retrieved 15 May 2021. "Harwich...
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