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Revision as of 19:54, 16 December 2014

H.M.S. Encounter (1902)
Builder: Devonport Royal Dockyard[1]
Laid down: 28 Jan, 1901[2]
Launched: 18 Jun, 1902[3]
Commissioned: 21 Nov, 1905[4]
to R.A.N.: Jul, 1912[5]
Fate: Scuttled Sep 1932[6]

H.M.S. Encounter was one of two Challenger class cruisers completed in 1904 and 1905.

Service

She spent her first six years in Royal Navy service in the Australia Station before being transferred to the Royal Australian Navy as H.M.A.S. Encounter on 1 July, 1912.[7]

Encounter was the first ship in the fledgling navy to fire in anger when she bombarded Toma Ridge on 14 September, 1914..

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 42.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 79.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 42.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 79.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 42.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 42.
  7. The Monthly Navy List, (December 1920).  p. 948.
  8. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  9. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  10. The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 309.
  11. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  12. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  13. Chambers Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 407.
  14. Chambers Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 407.
  15. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  16. The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 398b.
  17. Cumberbatch Family History
  18. The Navy List. (January, 1919). p. 948.

Bibliography


Challenger Class Second Class Protected Cruiser
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