HMS Newcastle (1813)
Newcastle
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Name | HMS Newcastle |
Ordered | 6 May 1813 |
Builder | Wigram, Wells & Green, Blackwall |
Laid down | June 1813 |
Launched | 10 November 1813 |
Completed | By 23 March 1814 |
Fate | Broken up in June 1850 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | 50-gun fourth rate |
Tons burthen | 1,556 bm |
Length |
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Beam | 44 ft 8 in (13.6 m) |
Depth of hold | 15 ft 1+1⁄2 in (4.6 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Crew | 450 |
Armament |
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HMS Newcastle was a 50-gun
.A new type of warship, a large
Construction
HMS Newcastle was ordered from the
Newcastle was a spar-deck frigate, designed to carry thirty 24-pounders on her main deck, and twenty-four 42-pounder carronades on her spar deck (two fewer carronades than her half-sister), with four 24-pounders on her forecastle.[1] In 1815, after the War of 1812 and Napoleonic Wars, Newcastle and Leander were fitted with accommodation for a flag officer with a poop deck built over the quarterdeck, and were mostly used as flagships on foreign stations, replacing older 50-gun ships that had previously filled this role.[1][3] Both ships were re-rated as 60-gun fourth rates in February 1817.[1][4]
Career
Newcastle was commissioned under her first commander, Captain
On 23 May 1814 Newcastle ran down Diligence, Grant, master, which was sailing from Southampton to Guernsey with 40 passengers. The passengers were all saved but the mate on Diligence drowned. Diligence was towed back to Southampton and Newcastle had to put back to Portsmouth for repairs.[5]
Newcastle, Leander, and Acasta shared the proceeds of the capture on 28 December 1814 of the notorious American privateer Prince de Neufchatel.[6] Her most famous captain, John Ordronaux, who was also one of her three owners and who had inflicted massive casualties on the boats of Endymion, was apparently not her captain at the time; her commander was Nicholas Millin.[7] At the time of her capture, Prince de Neufchatel was armed with 18 guns and had a crew of 129 men. She was eight days out of Boston.[8][b]
On 4 January 1815, Acasta, Leander and Newcastle recaptured John.[c]
Chasing the USS Constitution
Leander, under
. Due to the weather and some confusion, Constitution eluded the British.Fire from Newcastle led Levant's crew to run her ashore, where Acasta then captured her.[10][d] Collier eventually left Acasta and Newcastle windward of Barbados while he searched for Constitution. However, she had returned to port, thus avoiding an engagement.
Fate
Newcastle was paid off at Portsmouth in January 1822. Between April and June 1824 she underwent fitting there as a lazaretto. She then moved to Liverpool in September 1827. The Navy sold her on 12 June 1850 to John Brown for £2,500.[1]
External links
- Media related to HMS Newcastle (ship, 1813) at Wikimedia Commons
Notes
- ^ Though similar in concept, Newcastle and Leander were not sister ships, Newcastle having been designed by émigré shipwright Jean-Louis Barrallier.[1]
- ^ A first-class share of the prize money was £108 7s 1d; a sixth-class share was 12s 9¾d.[6]
- ^ A first-class share was worth £32 11s 6d; a sixth-class share was worth 4s 4¾d.[9]
- ^ A first-class share of the prize money for Levant was worth £496 15s 4d, or several years' pay; a sixth-class share was worth £3 5s 4¼d, or about three months' pay.[11]
Citations
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Winfield (2008), p. 123.
- ^ Colledge & Warlow (2006), p. 196.
- ^ a b Gardiner (2006), pp. 53–5.
- ^ Gardiner (2006), p. 67.
- ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. 31 May 1814. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
- ^ a b "No. 17136". The London Gazette. 14 May 1816. p. 911.
- ^ [1] Muster Roll of Prince of Neufchatel
- ^ [2] HMS Leander – Captain's Log
- ^ "No. 17290". The London Gazette. 30 September 1817. p. 2043.
- ^ Gossett (1986), p. 95.
- ^ "No. 17200". The London Gazette. 14 December 1816. p. 2366.
References
- ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Gardiner, Robert (2006). Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-292-5.
- Toll, Ian W. (2007). Six Frigates: How Piracy, War and British Supremacy at Sea gave Birth to the World's Most Powerful Navy. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780718146580.
- Gossett, William Patrick (1986). The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. Mansell. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.