NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Challenger	D33, P07, P81		Chatham DYd	1.12.1900	27.5.1902	3.5.1904	sold for BU 5.1920
Encounter (7/1912- RAN)			Devonport DYd	28.1.1901	18.6.1902	21.11.1905	submarine depot ship Penguin 5.1923

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	5880
Displacement full, t
Length, m	106.7 pp 113.4 oa
Breadth, m	16.5
Draught, m	6.25
No of shafts	2
Machinery	Challenger: 2 4-cyl. VTE, 18 Babcock boilers Encounter: 2 4-cyl. VTE, 18 Durr boilers
Power, h. p.	12500
Max speed, kts	21
Fuel, t	coal 1100
Endurance, nm(kts)	9000(10)
Armour, mm	Harvey steel; deck: 76 - 38, gun shields: 76, CT: 152, engine hatches: 127
Armament	11 x 1 - 152/45 BL Mk VII, 9 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I, 6 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 - 450 TT (sub, beam)
Complement	450

Standard scale images

Project history

Repeats of Eclipse class except for the provision of uniform 152mm gun armament and installation of watertube boilers. This pair was built under the 1900/01 Programme. Challenger and Encounter differed from the earlier group in adopting more powerful machinery and wind sails in place of cowls. On trials Challenger made 21.09kts with 12,806ihp and Encounter 21.3kts with 13,000ihp.

Ship protection

38mm deck with 76mm slopes protected machinery spaces.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Challenger was paid off in April 1919. Encounter served as receiving ship at Sydney from December 1919.