HMS Avon

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Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Avon. Avon comes from a Brythonic word meaning "river".

• HMS Avon was an 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop launched in 1805. In 1814 she was sunk in action with the American Wasp in the English Channel.
• HMS Avon was a 2-gun wooden paddle package ship transferred from the GPO to the Royal Navy in 1837. From 1843 she was used as a survey ship and she was sold in 1863.
• HMS Avon was a 2-gun wooden paddle gunboat purchased in 1862. She was used in the New Zealand land wars and sold in 1865 as a coal hulk. Later she became Clyde.
• HMS Avon was a 4-gun composite screw gunvessel launched in 1867. She was sold in 1890.
• HMS Avon was a destroyer launched in 1896. She was sold in 1920.
• HMS Avon was a River class frigate launched in 1943. She was handed over to the Portuguese Navy in 1949 where she was renamed Nuno Tristao. She was broken up in 1970.

[edit] References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.