HMS Avenger (D14)
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HMS Avenger (D14) was an escort aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy during World War II.
Avenger was one of four motorships laid down under Maritime Commission contract (Hull "Sun-59"), by the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. at Chester, Pennsylvania, and launched on 27 November 1940. In 1942 she was rebuilt from a US merchant ship, as the second of 38 converted C3 escort carriers turned over to Great Britain during the period 1941-1944.
She was commissioned as an escort carrier on 2 March 1942 and served with Convoy PQ-18 (sinking one U-boat on the journey), before participating in Operation Torch (the invasion of North Africa).
HMS Avenger was sunk by a German submarine as she was heading back from Africa to her home port Clyde on 15 November 1942. The explosion that sank her left only 12 survivors out of a total crew of 550 men. She was one of three US-built Royal Navy escort carriers sunk in World War II.
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