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HMS ''Avenger'' was a Type 21 frigate of the Royal Navy. Built by Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland, she was completed with Exocet launchers in 'B' position. ==Royal Navy service== With the appointment of Captain Hugo White in 1981, ''Avenger'' became leader of the 4th Frigate Squadron. ''Avenger'' was a late arrival at the Falklands War, as she didn't leave the UK until 10 May 1982, arriving on 25 May - a record for any ship involved in the operations, and a massive distance in 14 days.〔Marriott, Leo, 1983. Royal Navy Frigates 1945-1983, Ian Allen Ltd, Surrey, p104〕 Collectively all Type 21s had a massive short distance high-speed ability thanks to the Rolls Royce Olympus turbines, but at the time the RN preferred this information not to be publicised. Avenger had averaged 28 knots and the Type 21s became nicknamed the Boy Racers. Captain White led ''Avenger'' in the Falklands War surviving an attack by an Exocet missile which it shot out of the sky with the 4.5 inch mark 8 gun on the focsle of the ship. Her divers salvaged a 20mm Oerlikon from the wreck of HMS ''Antelope'' which was remounted to increase her anti-aircraft capability, referred to on board as "Antelopes Avenger".〔Marriott, Leo, 1983. Royal Navy Frigates 1945-1983, Ian Allen Ltd, Surrey, p104〕 She also assisted with naval gunfire support during the campaign. On June 11, she was conducting naval bombardments of Port Stanley in preparation for an amphibious assault by British troops. While the shelling was going on, she directly struck a house where civilians were sheltering, killing three Falkland Islander women and wounding several others. They are the only Falkland Islander civilian casualties of the war. During the Falklands deployment, an alarming crack in the ship's hull progressively worsened with the stormy South Atlantic weather. On return to UK, she was taken in for refitting, with a steel plate being welded down each side of the ship to eliminate the problem. At the same time modifications were made to reduce hull noise. After the war she remained leader of the 4th Frigate Squadron until 1986. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Avenger (F185)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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