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HMS Challenger (1902)

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in July 1904 as recruit training ship. She was paid off into reserve on 10 October 1912 before recommissioning during the
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HMS Challenger

United Kingdom
HM Dockyard Chatham
Challenger-class
protected cruiser
BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) Mk VII guns
12 pounder guns
3-pounder
18-inch (450-mm)
torpedo tubes
protected cruiser
Challenger-class
Royal Navy
Sir William Henry White
Director of Naval Construction
Chatham Dockyard
S. C. Holland
Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company
Babcock & Wilcox

Captain F.C.T. Tudor, R.N.
Australia Station
First World War


ISBN
0-86777-348-0

HMS Challenger (ship, 1902)

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