HMS Newcastle (1860)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Newcastle.

Newcastle
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 & 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.

References

• "Various British Screw Frigates". Warship International. V (4). Toledo, OH: Naval Records Club: 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.