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