![]() HMAS Newcastle in 2010
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Name | Newcastle |
Namesake | City of Newcastle |
Builder | Australian Marine Engineering Consolidated |
Laid down | 21 July 1989 |
Launched | 21 February 1992 |
Commissioned | 11 December 1993 |
Decommissioned | 30 June 2019[1] |
Identification | MMSI number: 503108000 |
Motto | Enterprise |
Honours and awards |
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Fate | Sold to Chile |
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Name | Capitán Prat |
Namesake | Arturo Prat |
Commissioned | 15 April 2020 |
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Class and type | Adelaide-class guided missile frigate |
Displacement | 4,100 tons |
Length | 138.1 m (453 ft) overall |
Beam | 13.7 m (45 ft) |
Draught | 4.5 m (15 ft) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph) |
Range | 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 184 (including 15 officers, not including aircrew) |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × S-70B Seahawk or 1 × Seahawk and 1 × AS350B Squirrel (in RAN service) |
HMAS Newcastle (FFG 06), named for the city of Newcastle, New South Wales, the largest provincial city in Australia, was an Adelaide-class guided-missile frigate. The last ship of the class to be constructed, Newcastle entered service with the Royal Australian Navy in 1993. During her career, the frigate has operated as part of the INTERFET peacekeeping taskforce, served in the Persian Gulf, and responded to the 2006 Fijian coup d'état. The frigate was decommissioned on 30 June 2019 and transferred to the Chilean Navy on 15 April 2020 and renamed as Capitán Prat (FFG 11).
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