H.M.S. Encounter (1902)
From The Dreadnought Project
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..
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Captains
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain Claude Lionel Cumberlege, January, 1916 to October, 1916.[2]
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