The watermark "24JCAB" does not form part of the image.
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!