HMS Newcastle (1860)

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Newcastle
History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Newcastle
NamesakeNewcastle upon Tyne
BuilderDeptford Dockyard
Laid down6 December 1858
Launched16 October 1860
CompletedSeptember 1874
Decommissioned1888
FateSold for breaking up 1929
General characteristics
Class and typeBristol-class frigate
Displacement4,020 long tons (4,080 t)
Tons burthen3035
Length250 ft (76.2 m)
Beam52 ft (15.8 m)
Draught21 ft (6.4 m)
Installed power2,354 ihp (1,755 kW)
Propulsion1 shaft, 1 Steam engine
Speed12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement550-600
Armament
  • Thirty 8-inch (203 mm) muzzle-loading smoothbore guns
  • Twenty 32-pounder muzzle-loading smoothbore guns
  • One 68-pounder muzzle-loading smoothbore gun

HMS Newcastle was a wooden screw frigate, the fifth ship of the name to serve in the Royal Navy.

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References[edit]

  • "Various British Screw Frigates". Warship International. V (4). Toledo, OH: Naval Records Club: 323. 1968.
  • Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
  • Lyon, David & Winfield, Rif: The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889 Chatham Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1-86176-032-9.