HMS Newcastle (1909)

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Career
Class and type:	Town-class light cruiser
Name:	HMS Newcastle
Builder:	Armstrong Whitworth
Laid down:	April 14, 1909
Launched:	November 25, 1909
Commissioned:	September 1910
Fate:	Sold for scrapping 9 May 1921
General characteristics
Displacement:	4,800 tons
Length:	453 ft (138 m) Overall
Beam:	47 ft (14 m)
Draught:	15.5 ft (4.7 m)
Propulsion:	Parsons turbines Four screws Twelve Yarrow boilers 22,000 hp
Speed:	25 knots (46 km/h)
Range:	carried 600 tons (1353 tons maximum) coal 260 tons fuel oil
Complement:	411
Armament:	2 × 6 inch guns 10 × 4 inch guns 1 × 3 inch guns 4 × 3 pdr guns 4 × machine guns 2 × 18-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:	2 inch, 1¾ inch, ¾ inch deck 6 inch conning tower

HMS Newcastle was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy launched on 25 November 1909 from the yards of Armstrong Whitworth. She formed part of the Bristol subgroup.

On the outbreak of the First World War she was stationed in the Far East on the China and Pacific station, being involved in operations during the Shanghai Rebellion in 1913, that had arisen as a result of the Xinhai Revolution that had broken out two years earlier. When war broke out she bombarded Yap, prior to deploying to Valparaíso to search for the armed merchant raider SMS Prinz Eitel Friedrich. In January 1916, Newcastle captured the German ship Mazatlan.In 1917 she was reassigned to the East Indies and in 1918 she was again moved to operate off South America. After an uneventful war service in comparison with her sisters, Newcastle was sold for scrapping on 9 May 1921 to the breaking firm of Ward. She arrived at the yards at Lelant on 3 May 1923 to be broken up.

[edit] References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475. 
• Jane's Fighting Ships of World War One (1919), Jane's Publishing Company
• Gray, Randal (ed), "Conway's All The Worlds Fighting Ships, 1906-1921", (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1985), ISBN 0-85177-245-5
• Ships of the Bristol group
• Bristol cruisers

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