HMS Encounter (1873)
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Encounter.
| Career (United Kingdom) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Encounter |
| Ordered: | 1871 |
| Builder: | Sheerness Dockyard |
| Cost: | Approximately £77,000 |
| Laid down: | 19 June 1871 |
| Launched: | 1 January 1873 |
| Completed: | July 1873 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, October 1888 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type: | Amethyst-class wooden screw corvette |
| Tonnage: | 1,405 bm |
| Displacement: | 1,934 long tons (1,965 t) |
| Length: | 220 ft (67.1 m) (p/p) |
| Beam: | 37 ft (11.3 m) |
| Draught: | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
| Installed power: | 2,031 ihp (1,515 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft 1 × 2-cylinder compound expansion steam engine 6 cylindrical boilers |
| Sail plan: | Ship rig |
| Speed: | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Range: | approximately 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 225 |
| Armament: | 14 × 64-pounder 71-cwt rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns |
HMS Encounter was a Amethyst-class corvette built for the Royal Navy in the early 1870s.
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Bibliography
- Ballard, G. A. (1937). "British Corvettes of 1875: The Last Wooden class". Mariner's Mirror (Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research) 23 (October): 435–45.
- Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- Winfield, Rif & Lyon, David (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.
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