RN Protected Cruisers: Challenger Class

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Lead Ship,Second Class Protected Cruiser HMS Challenger pictured c1905.Challenger was designed by Director of Naval Construction Sir William Henry White and laid down at Chatham Dockyard on December 1st 1900 and launched on May 27th 1902. Her 12 Babcox & Wilcox boilers and machinery were made at Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company,Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Challenger was commissioned on May 30th 1904, and commenced duty on the Australia Station.She was paid off into reserve on October 10th 1912 before recommissioning during the First World War.She initially served as part of the Ninth Cruiser Squadron off West Africa before serving in East African waters. She was sold in 1920 and was broken up for scrap
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Lead Ship,Second Class Protected Cruiser HMS Challenger pictured at Fremantle in 1906...Images courtesy of the West Australian State Library.
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Challenger Class,Second Class Protected Cruiser HMS Encounter pictured at Fremantle WA in 1906.She was built by HM Dockyard Devonport and completed at the end of 1905.
Encounter spent the first six years of her career operating with the RN's Australia Squadron, before being transferred to the newly formed RAN. During World War I, the Cruiser became the first ship of the RAN to fire in anger when she bombarded Toma Ridge.She operated in the New Guinea, Fiji-Samoa, and Malaya areas until 1916, when she returned to Australian waters.She spent the rest of the war patrolling and escorting convoys around Australia and into the Indian Ocean. In 1919, Encounter was sent to evacuate the Administrator of the Northern Territory and his family following the Darwin Rebellion.
She was paid off into reserve in 1920, but saw further use as a Depot Ship until being completely decommissioned in 1929. In 1932, she was scuttled off Sydney...Image courtesy of the West Australia State Library.
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Lead Ship,Second Class Protected Cruiser HMS Challenger showing off one of her eleven,QF 6-inch Mk I main armament guns,Wellington Harbour,NZ 1906.
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Lead Ship,Second Class Protected Cruiser HMS Challenger seen at Wellington...1906.
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Lead Ship,Second Class Protected Cruiser HMS Challenger pictured at Port Melbourne in 1912.She was laid down at Chatham Dockyard in 1900,launched in 1902 and commissioned on May 30th 1904 and commenced duty on the Australia Station.She was paid off into reserve on October 10th 1912 before recommissioning during the First World War. She initially served as part of the Ninth Cruiser Squadron off West Africa before serving in East African waters. She was sold in 1920 and was broken up for scrap.
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Challenger Class, Second Class Protected Cruiser HMS Encounter pictured at Sydney c1910...She was built by HM Dockyard Devonport and completed at the end of 1905...Encounter spent the first six years of her career operating with the RN's Australia Squadron, before being transferred to the newly formed RAN. During World War I, the Cruiser became the first ship of the RAN to fire in anger when she bombarded Toma Ridge. Encounter operated in the New Guinea, Fiji-Samoa, and Malaya areas until 1916, when she returned to Australian waters. She spent the rest of the war patrolling and escorting convoys around Australia and into the Indian Ocean. In 1919, Encounter was sent to evacuate the Administrator of the Northern Territory and his family following the Darwin Rebellion.Encounter was paid off into reserve in 1920, but saw further use as a Depot Ship until being completely decommissioned in 1929. In 1932, she was scuttled off Sydney.
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Lead Ship, Second Class Protected Cruiser HMS Challenger pictured c1905. Challenger was designed by Sir William Henry White, Director of Naval Construction, and was built at Chatham Dockyard, where she was laid down on December 1st 1900. She was launched there on May 2th 1902, when she was named by Eva Holland, wife of Rear-Admiral S. C. Holland, Admiral-Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard..Her machinery was made by the Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company, and there were 12 boilers of the Babcock & Wilcox type..Challenger was commissioned on May 30th 1904, and commenced duty on the Australia Station. She was paid off into reserve on October 10th 1912 before recommissioning during the First World War. She initially served as part of the Ninth Cruiser Squadron off West Africa before serving in East African waters. She was sold in 1920 and was broken up for scrap.
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Lead Ship, Second Class Protected Cruiser HMS Challenger pictured at Fremantle Harbour in 1906.
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Lead Ship, Second Class Protected Cruiser HMS Challenger pictured at Port Chalmers, NZ c1904.
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