HMS Encounter (1873)
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HMS Encounter was a Amethyst-class corvette built for the Royal Navy in the early 1870s.
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HMS Encounter | |
History | |
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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 |
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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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