Challenger class cruiser

Challenger class cruiser: HMS Challenger

Class overview

Name: Challenger

Operators: Royal Navy
Royal Australian Navy

Preceded by: Highflyer class

Succeeded by: Topaze class

Completed: Two

General characteristics

Type: cruiser

Displacement: 5,880 tons

Armament:
As built

Eleven x BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) guns

The Challenger class cruisers were a two-ship class of second class protected cruisers of the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy.

Contents

1 Ships

2 See also

3 References

4 External links

Ships

HMS Challenger - Sold 1920

HMS Encounter - To Australia 1912 as HMAS Encounter, renamed Penguin 1923, scuttled 1932.

See also

List of cruiser classes of the Royal Navy

Protected cruiser

References

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.

Jane's Fighting Ships of World War One (1919), Jane's Publishing Company

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HMS Challenger
Class overview
Name:	Challenger
Operators:	Royal Navy Royal Australian Navy
Preceded by:	Highflyer class
Succeeded by:	Topaze class
Completed:	Two
General characteristics
Type:	cruiser
Displacement:	5,880 tons
Armament:	As built Eleven x BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) guns

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