HMS Encounter (1873)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Encounter.

HMS Encounter
History
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
Displacement	1,934 long tons (1,965 t)
Tons burthen	1,405 bm
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 an Amethyst-class corvette built for the Royal Navy in the early 1870s.

References

Bibliography

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• Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
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