HMS Newcastle (D87)

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History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Newcastle
Builder	Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear
Laid down	21 February 1973
Launched	24 April 1975
Commissioned	23 March 1978
Decommissioned	1 February 2005
Out of service	1 February 2005
Homeport	Portsmouth
Identification	Pennant number: D87 IMO number: 4907000
Nickname(s)	"The Geordie Gunboat"
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	Type 42 destroyer
Displacement	4,820 tonnes
Length	125 m (410 ft)
Beam	14.3 m (47 ft)
Draught	5.8 m (19 ft)
Propulsion	COGOG (Combined Gas or Gas) turbines, 2 shafts 4 Rolls-Royce (2 Olympus TM3B and 2 Tyne RM1C) producing 36 MW (48,000 hp)
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h)
Complement	287–312
Armament	Twin Sea Dart Surface-to-air missile launcher 1 × 4.5-inch (114 mm) Mk.8 gun 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns 2 × Phalanx Close-in weapon system 2 × triple anti-submarine torpedo tubes NATO Seagnat and DLF3 decoy launchers
Aircraft carried	Lynx HMA8

The eighth HMS Newcastle was a batch 1 Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy, launched in 1975. Newcastle was decommissioned on 1 February 2005.