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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Frederick Armand Powlett|nick=Frederick A. Powlett|appt=28 October, 1912<ref>Powlett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 358.</ref>|end=c. 25 June, 1916<ref>Day of month is not certain.  Powlett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 358.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Richard Greville Arthur Wellington Stapleton-Cotton|nick=Richard G. A. W. Stapleton-Cotton|appt=3 September, 1916<ref>Stapleton-Cotton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/411.|D7576563}} f. 411.</ref>{{NLNov17|p. 395''x''}}|end=1 April, 1918<ref>Stapleton-Cotton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/411.|D7576563}} f. 411.</ref>|ass=23 September, 1916<ref>Stapleton-Cotton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/411.|D7576563}} f. 411.</ref>|note=and as S.N.O., Brindisi}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Richard Greville Arthur Wellington Stapleton-Cotton|nick=Richard G. A. W. Stapleton-Cotton|appt=3 September, 1916<ref>Stapleton-Cotton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/411.|D7576563}} f. 411.</ref>{{NLNov17|p. 395''x''}}|end=1 January, 1918<ref>Stapleton-Cotton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/411.|D7576563}} f. 411.</ref>|ass=23 September, 1916<ref>Stapleton-Cotton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/411.|D7576563}} f. 411.</ref>|note=and as S.N.O., Brindisi}}
{{Tenure|rank={{Com2RN}}|name=Aubrey Clare Hugh Smith|nick=Aubrey C. H. Smith|appt=1 January, 1918|end=23 July, 1919|note=and as Commodore East Coast of South America}}
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Revision as of 15:06, 11 December 2016

H.M.S. Newcastle (1909)
Pendant Number: N/A[1]
Builder: Armstrong[2]
Laid down: 14 Apr, 1909[3]
Launched: 25 Nov, 1909[4]
Commissioned: Sep, 1910[5]
Sold: 9 May, 1921[6]
Fate: to Ward, Lelant[7]

H.M.S. Newcastle was one of five Bristol class cruisers completed for the Royal Navy in 1910.

Construction

A former vessel named Newcastle had been Jellicoe's first seagoing ship, and he specifically requested that his wife launch the new cruiser.[8]

Newcastle was launched at Elswick on 25 November, 1909, by Lady Jellicoe, wife of the Controller of the Navy, Rear-Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe.[9]

She travelled the world broadly during the war. On the night of 27-8 January, 1916 near Port San Nicolas, she captured the German ship Mazatlan which was then in the guise of the American ship Edna.[10] By mid-1917, however, she had gone to the Mediterranean and operated extensively out of Brindisi under the command of Richard Greville Arthur Wellington Stapleton-Cotton, who'd been appointed to command her in September, 1916.

Service

Newcastle recommissioned at Colombo on 5 December 1912.[11]

She paid off 28 February, 1920.[12]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 51.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 51.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 51.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 51.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
  8. ↑ Jellicoe to McKenna. Letter of 14 October, 1909. McKenna Papers. Churchill Archives Centre. MCKN 3/22/5.
  9. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence." The Times. 26 November, 1909. p. E.
  10. ↑ Ship's Log.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 349.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 816.
  13. ↑ Hunt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. Unnumbered folio.
  14. ↑ Hunt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. Unnumbered folio.
  15. ↑ Powlett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 358.
  16. ↑ Day of month is not certain. Powlett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 358.
  17. ↑ Stapleton-Cotton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/411. f. 411.
  18. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 395x.
  19. ↑ Stapleton-Cotton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/411. f. 411.

Bibliography

  • Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


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