HMS Newcastle (1860)
| Career (UK) |  |
|---|---|
| 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 |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Newcastle.
HMS Newcastle was a wooden screw frigate, the fifth ship of the name to serve in the Royal Navy.
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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