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Revision as of 17:35, 9 September 2012
H.M.S. Encounter 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.[1]
She 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 given:
- Captain Claude Lionel Cumberlege, January, 1916 to October, 1916.[2]
See Also
Footnotes
Bibliography
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