"The Royal Navy in the Pacific during the Second World War, 1941-1945" A photograph believed to have been taken from HMS DEVONSHIRE of a donvoy bound for Batavia and Singapore passing through the Sunda Strait. On the left is a destroyer, believed to be HMS ENCOUNTER. This is possibly the last known photograph of this ship prior to her loss a few weeks later at the Battle off Bawean Island (2nd Battle of the Java Sea).