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HMS Encounter (1873)  (4th)
Wooden Screw Corvette 14-gun

    
This the fourth ship to carry the name HMS Encounter was a 14-gun,  wooden screw corvette.

Built at Sheerness Dockyard, launched 01-Jan-1873, 220ft long, 37ft wide and displacing 1,970 tons. Armed with 14 x 64pdr guns.

Sold Oct-1888.

Won the Battle Honour: Ashantee 1873-74.

 

Other HMS Encounter
- 1st  HMS Encounter
- 2nd HMS Encounter
- 3rd HMS Encounter
- 4th HMS Encounter
- 5th HMS Encounter
- 6th HMS Encounter

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This page last edited - 26 August, 2012.

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