HMS Encounter (1873)

HMS Encounter was a Amethyst-class corvette built for the Royal Navy in the early 1870s.

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
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:
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

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      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.
      • Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (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.
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