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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • RNAS Schofields on 30 June 1945, from HMS Indefatigable’s air squadrons, No.s 887 & 894 (Seafire), 820 (Avenger) and 1770 (Firefly) squadrons. The Commander...
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    854 Naval Air Squadron, which operated the Avenger torpedo bomber aircraft, 1843 Naval Air Squadron and 1845 Naval Air Squadron, which were both equipped...
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  • (Hellcats) 1845 Squadron (14 July – 24 October 1945) (Corsair IVs) 1846 Squadron (14 July – 13 August 1945) (Corsair IVs) HMS Colossus HMS Formidable HMS Illustrious...
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