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==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment given:
 
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*{{CaptRN}} [[Cecil Fiennes Thursby]], 1905.{{MackieRNW}}
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*Captain [[Henry Venn Wood Elliott]], December 1905.{{MackieRNW}}
 
*Captain [[Herbert Arthur Stevenson Fyler|Herbert A. S. Fyler]], 1 January, 1908.<ref>''Navy List'' (October, 1908).  p. 309.</ref>
 
*Captain [[Herbert Arthur Stevenson Fyler|Herbert A. S. Fyler]], 1 January, 1908.<ref>''Navy List'' (October, 1908).  p. 309.</ref>
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*Captain [[Philip Howard Colomb]], March 1909.{{MackieRNW}}
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*Captain [[Spencer Allen Hickley]], April 1911.{{MackieRNW}}
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*Captain [[Bertram Mordaunt Chambers]], July 1912.{{MackieRNW}}
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*Captain [[Arthur Gordon Smith]], March 1913.{{MackieRNW}}
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*Captain [[Charles La Primaudaye Lewin]], January 1914.{{MackieRNW}}
 
*Captain [[Claude Lionel Cumberlege]], January, 1916 to October, 1916.<ref>[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bob.cumberbatch/C%20L%20Cumberlege.htm Cumberbatch Family History]</ref>
 
*Captain [[Claude Lionel Cumberlege]], January, 1916 to October, 1916.<ref>[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bob.cumberbatch/C%20L%20Cumberlege.htm Cumberbatch Family History]</ref>
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*Captain [[John B. Stevenson]], October 1916.{{MackieRNW}}
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 15:39, 22 October 2012

H.M.S. Encounter (1902)
Builder: Devonport Royal Dockyard[1]
Laid down: 28 Jan, 1901[2]
Launched: 18 Jun, 1902[3]
Commissioned: 21 Nov, 1905[4]
to R.A.N.: Jul, 1912[5]
Fate: Scuttled Sep 1932[6]

H.M.S. Encounter spent her first six years in Royal Navy service in the Australia Station before being transferred to the Royal Australian Navy as H.M.A.S. Encounter on 1 July, 1912.[7]

She was the first ship in the fledgling navy to fire in anger when she bombarded Toma Ridge on 14 September, 1914..

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 42.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 79.
  3. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 42.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 79.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 42.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 42.
  7. ↑ Cumberbatch Family History
  8. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  9. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  10. ↑ Navy List (October, 1908). p. 309.
  11. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  12. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  13. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  14. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  15. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  16. ↑ Cumberbatch Family History
  17. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

Bibliography


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