| Name: | ENCOUNTER |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 15/03/1933 |
| Launched: | 29/03/1934 |
| Completed: | 02/11/1934 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 588 |
| Dimensions: | 1423disp - 1923disp, 318.3 x 33.3 x 8.7(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 36000shp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 36.6knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 2 x 4 x 0.5ins AA guns; 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes; 20 x depth charges |
| History: | |
| 02/11/1934 | British Royal Navy |
| 01/03/1942 | Sank |
| Comments: | 01/03/1942: Scuttled after being disabled in a gun battle with Japanese cruisers |
| at the Second Battle of the Java Sea |
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