HMS Newcastle (1860)

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

History
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:
  • Thirty 8-inch (203 mm) muzzle-loading smoothbore guns
  • Twenty 32-pounder muzzle-loading smoothbore guns
  • One 68-pounder muzzle-loading smoothbore gun
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Newcastle.

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    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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