HMS Encounter was a Amethyst-class corvette built for the Royal Navy in the early 1870s.
 HMS Encounter
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Encounter |
| Ordered | 1871 |
| Builder | Sheerness Dockyard |
| Cost | Approximately £77,000 |
| Laid down | 19 June 1871 |
| Launched | 1 January 1873 |
| Completed | July 1873 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, October 1888 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Amethyst-class wooden screw corvette |
| Displacement | 1,934 long tons (1,965 t) |
| Tons burthen | 1,405 bm |
| Length | 220 ft (67.1 m) (p/p) |
| Beam | 37 ft (11.3 m) |
| Draught | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
| Installed power | 2,031 ihp (1,515 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Sail plan | Ship rig |
| Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Range | approximately 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 225 |
| Armament | 14 × 64-pounder 71-cwt rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns |
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- Ballard, G. A. (1937). "British Corvettes of 1875: The Last Wooden class". Mariner's Mirror. 23 (October). Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research: 435–45. doi:10.1080/00253359.1937.10657256.
- Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.