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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Encounter			Devonport DYd, UK	28.1.1901	18.6.1902	21.11.1905 // 7.1912	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	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

Encounter served as receiving ship at Sydney from December 1919.