HMS Avenger (F185)

1978-1994

Type 21 Amazon class

Timeline

Date	Event
Oct 30, 1974	Laid down	Yard No 1012
Nov 20, 1975	Launched
Jul 19, 1978	Commissioned
Nov 23, 1981	Deployment	sailed from HMNB Devonport for West Indies Guardship duty, with Lynx HAS.2 XZ250/341-AG Purdy embarked.
Apr 1982	Aircraft	assigned 815 NAS Lynx HAS.2 XZ249 as /307 Apr 1982, then /341 by mid May 1982.
May 10, 1982	Deployment	Departed HMNB Devonport for South Atlantic, leaving theatre on 23 Aug 1982. Operation Corporate
May 4, 1983	Deployment	Gulf of Oman Lynx XZ249/341-AG ditched in Gulf of Oman
1985	Aircraft	assigned Lynx XZ697
Jul 28, 1989	Deployment	HMD Devonport present at Plymouth Navy Days 1989 Navy Days 1989
1994	Decommissioned
Sep 23, 1994	Fate: transfered	to Pakistan as PNS Tippu Sultan (185)