HMS Encounter (1873)

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HMS Encounter
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Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
NameHMS Encounter
Ordered1871
Builder Sheerness Dockyard
CostApproximately £77,000
Laid down19 June 1871
Launched1 January 1873
CompletedJuly 1873
FateSold for scrap, October 1888
General characteristics (as built)
Class and typeAmethyst-class wooden screw corvette
Displacement1,934 long tons (1,965 t)
Tons burthen1,405 bm
Length220 ft (67.1 m) (p/p)
Beam37 ft (11.3 m)
Draught18 ft (5.5 m)
Installed power2,031  ihp (1,515 kW)
Propulsion
Sail plan Ship rig
Speed13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Rangeapproximately 2,500  nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement225
Armament14 × 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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