have been named HMS Biter. Another was planned: HMS Biter (1797) was a 12-gun gunvessel launched in 1797 and sold in 1802. HMS Biter (1804) was a 12-gun...
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HMS Biter was a Royal Navy escort carrier during the Second World War. She was laid down as a merchant ship at the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company...
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Avenger-class escort carrier (section HMS Biter)
anti-submarine aircraft. The three ships in the class were HMS Avenger, HMS Biter and HMS Dasher. A fourth ship, USS Charger was built at the same time...
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Edward Albert Gibbs (section HMS Fortune)
1943, HMS Pathfinder sank the U-203 with depth charges off Cape Farewell, Greenland, with assistance from Swordfish aircraft flying from HMS Biter. Gibbs...
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embark aboard the escort carrier Biter to serve on convoy escort duty in the battle of the Atlantic. On 22 April Biter and the escort destroyers Pathfinder...
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Avenger-class escort carrier, ex-HMS Biter, in service from 1945 to 1951 Arromanches: Colossus-class light aircraft carrier, ex-HMS Colossus (R15), in service...
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USS Charger (redirect from HMS Charger (D27))
"Charger Type of 1942 (Class)", she actually had several sister ships in HMS Avenger, Biter, and Dasher, all with similar building histories and transferred to...
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commissioned into RN service as HMS Dasher (D37) on 2 July 1942. She participated in Operation Torch, with her sister ship Biter, carrying Sea Hurricanes of...
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USS Hunt (DD-194) (redirect from HMS Broadway)
Navy and commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Broadway (H90). Broadway arrived at Belfast on 24 October 1940, where she joined the 11th Escort Group, Western...
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received promotion to captain on 30 June 1940. From 5 July 1940 Abel Smith served as Commanding Officer of HMS Condor, the Royal Naval Air Station at Arbroath...
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