HMS Newcastle (1909)

HMS Newcastle was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 November 1909 from the Armstrong Whitworth yard and belonging to the Bristol sub-group. The Bristols were rated second-class cruisers for trade protection and fleet duties. She was 453 feet long, displaced about 4,800 long tons, and her Parsons steam turbines on four shafts, fed by twelve Yarrow boilers burning coal and oil, gave 22,000 shaft horsepower and a trial speed of 25.85 knots. She carried two 6-inch and ten 4-inch guns, which were thought rather light and the waist guns were awkward in a high sea, and her large metacentric height made her roll badly. She was stationed on the China and Pacific station when the First World War began, bombarded Yap, searched for the raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich off Valparaiso and in January 1916 captured the German ship Mazatlan. She was later moved to the East Indies and South America and was sold for scrapping on 9 May 1921.