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*Captain [[Claude Lionel Cumberlege]], January, 1916 to October, 1916.<ref>[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bob.cumberbatch/C%20L%20Cumberlege.htm Cumberbatch Family History]</ref> | *Captain [[Claude Lionel Cumberlege]], January, 1916 to October, 1916.<ref>[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bob.cumberbatch/C%20L%20Cumberlege.htm Cumberbatch Family History]</ref> | ||
*Captain [[John B. Stevenson]], October 1916.{{MackieRNW}} | *Captain [[John B. Stevenson]], October 1916.{{MackieRNW}} | ||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
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| 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.
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 given:
- Captain Cecil Fiennes Thursby, 1905.[8]
- Captain Henry Venn Wood Elliott, December 1905.[9]
- Captain Herbert A. S. Fyler, 1 January, 1908.[10]
- Captain Philip Howard Colomb, March 1909.[11]
- Captain Spencer Allen Hickley, April 1911.[12]
- Captain Bertram Mordaunt Chambers, July 1912.[13]
- Captain Arthur Gordon Smith, March 1913.[14]
- Captain Charles La Primaudaye Lewin, January 1914.[15]
- Captain Claude Lionel Cumberlege, January, 1916 to October, 1916.[16]
- Captain John B. Stevenson, October 1916.[17]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 42.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 79.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 42.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 79.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 42.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 42.
- ↑ The Monthly Navy List, (December 1920). p. 948.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Navy List (October, 1908). p. 309.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Cumberbatch Family History
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
Bibliography
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