| Name: | NEWCASTLE |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 21/02/1973 |
| Launched: | 24/04/1975 |
| Completed: | 01/02/1978 |
| Builder: | Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd |
| Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 61 |
| Dimensions: | 4820disp, 125.00oa x 14.30 x 5.8(draft)metres |
| Engines: | 2 x Olympus TM3B & 2 x Tyne RM1A gas turbines, 58500shp |
| Engines by: | Rolls Royce |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 30.0+knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 1 x Vickers Mk8 4.5ins gun, 1 x twin Sea Dart AA missile, 2 x 3 x 12.75ins torpedoes, |
| 2 x 20mm Oerlikon guns, 2 x Phalanx Close-in Weapon System, 1 x Lynx HMA8 helicopter | |
| History: | |
| 01/02/1978 | British Royal Navy |
| 01/12/2008 | Broken up |
| Comments: | A member of the Type 42 class of destroyers - Batch 1 |
| Allocated pennant D87 | |
| Exact configuration of smaller weapons varied during life time | |
| 01/02/2005: Decommissioned & in active reserve at Fareham Creek | |
| 21/11/2008: Left Portsmouth, in tow for Turkey | |
| 03/01/2009: Broken up by Avsar GS at Aliaga |
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