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History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
Name HMS Newcastle
Namesake Newcastle upon Tyne
Builder Deptford Dockyard
Laid down 6 December 1858
Launched 16 October 1860
Completed September 1874
Decommissioned 1888
Fate Sold for breaking up 1929
General characteristics
Class and type Bristol-class frigate
Displacement 4,020 long tons (4,080 t)
Tons burthen 3035
Length 250 ft (76.2 m)
Beam 52 ft (15.8 m)
Draught 21 ft (6.4 m)
Installed power 2,354 ihp (1,755 kW)
Propulsion 1 shaft, 1 Steam engine
Speed 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement 550-600
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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