USS Avenger
Encyclopedia
Three ships of the United States Navy
have borne the name Avenger.
United States Navy
The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
have borne the name Avenger.
- The , was a side-wheel ram, transferred from the Army to the Navy in 1863, and decommissioned and sold in 1865.
- The , was leased and commissioned by the Navy in May 1918, and decommissioned in December 1918.
- The , is an Avenger class mine countermeasures ship, launched in 1985 and currently in service.
Fictional Ships
- The 1979 novel, Inoculate!, features a fictional submarineBallistic missile submarineA ballistic missile submarine is a submarine equipped to launch ballistic missiles .-Description:Ballistic missile submarines are larger than any other type of submarine, in order to accommodate SLBMs such as the Russian R-29 or the American Trident...
named Avenger