Royal Navy RP Postcard. HMS "Encounter" Destroyer. Sunk in WW11. Nov, 1934.

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Seller: 24jcab ✉️ (9,127) 100%, Location: London, GB, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 166675218646 Royal Navy RP Postcard. HMS "Encounter" Destroyer. Sunk in WW11. Nov, 1934..                                     Royal Navy RP Postcard. HMS "Encounter" Destroyer. Sunk in WW11 at the Second Battle of Java Sea. Nov, 1934.

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                                                                                                 Publisher/Photographer: Wright & Logan, Southsea.

WRIGHT & LOGAN

  Wright & Logan  were  Naval Photograph specialists  base in Hampshire. Their famous Collection of around 22,000 negatives, mostly glass plates, of Warships from 1924-1998 is one of a handful of significant assemblages of Royal Navy images in the world.

This amazing Collection was acquired by the Royal Naval Museum  who are cataloguing and preserving these images for posterity. These are no longer being published by Wright & Logan.

This image is one of a vast Collection (inclusive of W & L images) which is linked to the premier names involved in the taking of photographs and publishing of Naval Postcards and photographs over the past 100 years.

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This fine postcard is from. a Superb World Class Collection that recently came on the market. The original Owner/Collector spent decades assembling this collection.  Highly knowledgeable, meticulous and clearly attached to his work he could even identify the time and place where these images were taken!

Even if there are multiple real photographic postcards of individual ships each postcard is different whether taken from the bow, stern, starboard or port side!  A Truly remarkable collection!

Description

  HMS Encounter   was an   E-class   destroyer   built for the   Royal Navy   in the early 1930s. Although assigned to the   Home Fleet   upon completion, the ship was attached to the   Mediterranean Fleet   in 1935–36 during the   Abyssinia Crisis . During the   Spanish Civil War   of 1936–39, she spent considerable time in Spanish waters, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by   Britain   and   France   on both sides of the conflict.   Encounter   was assigned to   convoy   escort and anti-submarine patrol duties in the   Western Approaches , when   World War II   began in September 1939. She participated in the   Norwegian Campaign   before joining   Force H   in mid-1940 and was present during the   Battles of Dakar   and   Cape Spartivento   later that year. The ship was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1941 where she escorted   convoys to Malta .

Encounter  was badly damaged while refitting at Malta  a few weeks after arriving in the Mediterranean and was briefly reassigned to Force H after her repairs were completed before rejoining the Mediterranean Fleet later in the year. Late in the year, the ship was transferred to the Eastern Fleet  at Singapore  and spent several months in early 1942 on convoy escort duties under the control of American-British-Dutch-Australian Command  (ABDACOM). She was one of the Allied ships retasked to intercept Japanese invasion convoys during the Dutch East Indies Campaign  in February 1942 and participated in the Battle of the Java Sea . Encounter  was sunk a few days later in the Second Battle of the Java Sea  on 1 March and most of her crew were rescued by a Japanese ship the next day. About a quarter of them died in captivity before the end of the war in 1945. The ship's wreck was discovered in 2007 and had been almost totally destroyed by illegal salvagers  by 2016.

Back:          Postally Unused.  

Condition:    Fine image. Marks on back corners where previously attached to another surface.  See high resolution scans for details.  

Shipping:     Each card is shipped in a hard backed envelope with "Please do Not Bend" on the front. Cards will be doubled up if more than one is purchased.

ALL the postcards that we sell are ORIGINALS . We have scanned directly from the original card and the image may sometimes be less vibrant than the postcard itself.

                              As a collector I hope you enjoy this purchase as much as I enjoy those that I collect!

  • Size: Standard (140x89mm)
  • Period: Inter-War (1918-39)
  • Modified Item: No
  • Theme: Transportation
  • Number of Items: Single
  • Transportation Type: Sea
  • Type: Real Photographic (RP)
  • Features: Port View, Sunk in WW11
  • Subject: Military Vessel
  • Postage Condition: Unposted
  • Publisher: Wright & Logan, Southsea.

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