HMS Newcastle (1860)
HMS Newcastle was a wooden screw frigate, the fifth ship of the name to serve in the Royal Navy.
History | |
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United 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: |
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Notes
References
- "Various British Screw Frigates". Warship International. Toledo, OH: Naval Records Club. V (4): 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.
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