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HMS Newcastle (1860) (5th) |
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This the fifth ship to carry the name HMS Newcastle was a wooden
screw frigate.
Built at Deptford Dockyard, launched 16-Oct-1860, 250ft long, 52ft wide and of 3,035 tons builders measurement or 4,020 tons displacement. With an armament of 30 x 8in guns, 1 x 68pdr gun, 20 x 32pdr guns. She served in India and Japan before being reduced to a powder hulk at Devonport 1889. She remained at Devonport until 1929 when she was sold and broken up.
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03 April, 2013.
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