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* {{CaptRN}} [[Cecil Fiennes Thursby]], 1905.{{MackieRNW}}
* {{CaptRN}} [[Cecil Fiennes Thursby]], 1905.{{MackieRNW}}
* Captain [[Henry Venn Wood Elliott]], December, 1905.{{MackieRNW}}
* Captain [[Henry Venn Wood Elliott]], December, 1905.{{MackieRNW}}
* Captain [[Herbert Arthur Stevenson Fyler|Herbert A. S. Fyler]], 1 January, 1908.<ref>''Navy List'' (October, 1908).  p. 309.</ref>
* Captain [[Herbert Arthur Stevenson Fyler|Herbert A. S. Fyler]], 1 January, 1908.<ref>''Navy List'' (October, 1908).  p. 309.</ref>
* Captain [[Philip Howard Colomb]], March, 1909.{{MackieRNW}}
* Captain [[Philip Howard Colomb]], March, 1909.{{MackieRNW}}
* Captain [[Spencer Allen Hickley]], April, 1911.{{MackieRNW}}
* Captain [[Spencer Allen Hickley]], April, 1911.{{MackieRNW}}
* Captain [[Bertram Mordaunt Chambers]], July, 1912.{{MackieRNW}}
* Captain [[Bertram Mordaunt Chambers]], July, 1912.{{MackieRNW}}
* Captain [[Arthur Gordon Smith]], March, 1913.{{MackieRNW}}
* Captain [[Arthur Gordon Smith]], March, 1913.{{MackieRNW}}
* Captain [[Charles La Primaudaye Lewin]], January, 1914.{{MackieRNW}}
* Captain [[Charles La Primaudaye Lewin]], January, 1914.{{MackieRNW}}
* 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 Bryan Stevenson|John B. Stevenson]], October, 1916.{{MackieRNW}}
* Captain [[John Bryan Stevenson|John B. Stevenson]], October, 1916.{{MackieRNW}}
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Revision as of 20:24, 28 April 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. ↑ Navy List (October, 1908). p. 309.
  11. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  12. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  13. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  14. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  15. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  16. ↑ Cumberbatch Family History
  17. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

Bibliography


Challenger Class Second Class Protected Cruiser
  Challenger Encounter  
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