HMS Encounter (1873)

For other ships with the same name, see 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:	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.

Notes

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.

Amethyst-class corvettes

Amethyst Diamond Encounter Modeste Sapphire

Preceded by: Volage class Followed by: Rover List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy

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