H.M.S. Encounter (1902)

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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 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]

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:

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. Cumberbatch Family History
  8. Navy List (October, 1908). p. 309.
  9. Cumberbatch Family History

Bibliography


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