RN · DD
Encounter
Photos and infoE-class destroyer, pennant H10. Hawthorn Leslie, commissioned 1934. Lieutenant Commander E. V. St. J. Morgan had her. In the Java Sea she laid smoke to cover Exeter. That night she was ordered to stop and picked up 113 of Kortenaer's 153 men. She took them to Surabaya. On 1 March 1942 she sailed with Exeter and Pope and was sunk.
| Type | Destroyer (DD) |
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| Hull | H10 |
| Fate | Sunk. Not sunk in the Java Sea. She picked up 113 men from Kortenaer that night. Sunk on 1 March 1942 after Exeter. Her survivors were picked up by a Japanese destroyer on 2 March. |
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Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.
HMS Encounter in 1938. The pennant H10 is on the hull. Imperial War Museums FL 11382. Public domain.
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Command
Battle of the Java Sea
1942-02-27 · laid smoke for Exeter, then picked up 113 men of Kortenaer that night. Not sunk in this battle
