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HMS Newcastle (D87)

HMS Newcastle

UK Royal Navy

1978-2004

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Type 42 (Batch 1 and 2) class

DDG · Guided-Missile Destroyer

Flight Deck:NC
Call Sign:GQIH
Shipyard:Swan Hunter (Neptune)

Timeline

DateEvent
Nov 11, 1971 Ordered
Feb 21, 1973 Laid down Swan Hunter (Neptune) Yard No. 61
Apr 24, 1975 Launched
Jan 4, 1978 Aircraft 702 Sqn, 203 Flt Lynx XZ239 assigned as /345 Newcastle Flt
Feb 1978 Homeport arrived at HMNB Portsmouth after completion of builders trials
Mar 23, 1978 Commissioned
Mar 5, 1979 Deployment FK South Atlantic Maiden deployment to South Atlantic, returning Jun 1979
Mar 6, 1981 Deployment departed HMNB Portsmouth for 5 month Armilla Patrol deployment to Middle East, Persian Gulf and East Africa, joining HMS Rothesay, RFA Fort Grange and RFA Olna. Relieved HMS Ardent on arrival. Returned 3 Aug 1981. Armilla Patrol
Feb 15, 1982 Refit 6 month refit, completed 21 Jul 1982.
Mar 15, 1982 Aircraft 815 Sqn, 203 Flt Lynx XZ242 assigned as /345-NC Newcastle Flt but reassigned to Coventry Flt on 17 Apr 1982
Apr 17, 1982 Aircraft 815 Sqn, 203 Flt Lynx XZ700 assigned to Newcastle Flt but never reached the ship (sunk with mv Atlantic Conveyor 25 May 1982)
May 4, 1982 Aircraft 815 Sqn, 203 Flt Lynx XZ720 assigned to Newcastle Flt aboard RFA Fort Austin, transferred to HMS Hermes 3 Jul 1982 for return to UK from Falkland Islands.
May 17, 1982 Aircraft 815 Sqn Lynx XZ240 assigned to Newcastle Flt aboard HMS Hermes
Jun 28, 1982 Aircraft 815 Sqn, 241 Flt Lynx XZ256 assigned as /345-NC Newcastle Flt, until Sep 1982 (when damaged S of Ascension Island).
Sep 1982 Aircraft 815 Sqn, 241 Flt Lynx XZ731 assigned as /345-NC Newcastle Flt, until Mar 1984
Sep 6, 1982 Deployment departed HMNB Portsmouth for 5 month security patrol around Falkland Islands in company with 5 other RN warships. Newcastle returned to UK on 20 Dec 1982.
Jul 15, 1983 Deployment departed HMNB Portsmouth for 5 month security patrol around Falkland Islands in company with 3 other RN warships. Newcastle returned to UK in Dec 1983.
Mar 5, 1984 Aircraft 815 Sqn, 241 Flt Lynx XZ246 on temporary loan to Newcastle Flt
Jun 14, 1984 Deployment short European waters deployment, returned 18 Jul 1984
May 1985 Aircraft 815 Sqn, 241 Flt Lynx ZD265 assigned as /345-NC Newcastle Flt, until c Mar 1986
Oct 24, 1985 Deployment departed HMNB Portsmouth for 5 month Persian Gulf and East African maritime security mission, arriving back in the UK on 27 Feb 1986
Jan 17, 1986 Deployment YE off Aden diverted to Aden for Operation Balsac. Ships Flt ZD265 transferred c 250 evacuees, 6 at a time from mv Diamond Princess on 23 Jan and made for Djbouti. Operation Balsac
Mar 12, 1986 Refit for 19 month refit, to include many of the lessons from the 1982 Falklands conflict, emerging on 6 Nov 1987
Jan 1988 Aircraft 815 Sqn, 223 Flt Lynx XZ248 assigned as /345-NC Newcastle Flt, until c Dec 1990
Aug 3, 1988 Deployment departed HMNB Portsmouth after refit, for 4 month deployment as West Indies Guardship, returning on 12 Dec 1987.
1989 Deployment FK South Atlantic with Lynx XZ248 for South Atlantic Patrol
Sep 21, 1989 Deployment returned from South Atlantic Patrol via East Pacific, Panama Canal and Caribbean on 21 Sep 1989.
Apr 9, 1990 Deployment departed HMNB Portsmouth for 5 month maritime security and anti-narcotics mission in Caribbean as West Indies Guardship, returning early Aug 1990
Sep 1990 Refit refit included installation of Type 996 radar and improved defensive systems, completed May 1991. surface and low level air search radar Type 996
Dec 1990 Aircraft 815 Sqn, 223 Flt Lynx ZF562 assigned as /345-NC Newcastle Flt, until Mar 1991
Mar 1991 Aircraft 815 Sqn, 219 Flt Lynx XZ691 assigned as /345-NC Newcastle Flt, until Mar 1992
Mar 26, 1992 Aircraft 815 Sqn, 219 Flt Lynx XZ227 assigned as /345-NC Newcastle Flt until c Feb 1993.
May 12, 1992 Deployment departed HMNB Portsmouth for Far East deployment and joined with the HMS Invincible Group for Orient 92 deployment, returning 27 Nov 1992 Task Group 318.1
Jun 1992 Deployment IO Diego Garcia Port Participated in Exercise Sea Cobra off Diego Garcia with the Invincible Task Group, end Jun early Jul 1992 Task Group 318.1 Orient 92 deployment
Jun 1993 Aircraft 815 Sqn, 219 Flt Lynx XZ248 assigned as /345-NC Newcastle Flt, until c Aug 1995
Sep 8, 1993 Deployment FK South Atlantic departed HMNB Portsmouth for a 7 month South Atlantic deployment, relieved on station by HMS Norfolk in Feb and returning via East Pacific, Panama Canal and Caribbean in Apr 1994
Aug 7, 1995 Refit HMD Rosyth major refit at HMD Rosyth, completed Nov 1996
Aug 1996 Aircraft 815 Sqn, 219 Flt Lynx XZ695 assigned as /345-NC Newcastle Flt, until c Nov 1998
Nov 17, 1997 Deployment departed HMNB Portsmouth for 8 month deployment as West Indies Guardship, including relief visits to Montserrat after the Dec 1997 aftershocks of the Jun 1997 earthquake, returned Jul 1998.
Nov 1998 Aircraft 815 Sqn, HQ Flt Lynx XZ230 on temporary loan to Newcastle Flt, still wearing /305
Nov 3, 1998 Aircraft HMD Devonport lifted off damaged Lynx HAS.3S XZ254 while visiting Plymouth
Jan 1999 Aircraft 815 Sqn, 219 Flt Lynx XZ239 assigned as /345-NC Newcastle Flt
Jan 9, 1999 Deployment Persian Gulf departed HMNB Portsmouth, as escort for HMS Invincible for Persian Gulf Iraqi sanctions enforcement deployment. On the return trip, diverted to the Adriatic to support UN operations in Kosovo and reached Portsmouth in late May 1999, when its Lynx departed by road for RNAS Yeovilton. Task Force 347.01
May 2, 2000 Deployment departed HMNB Portsmouth for a 7 month global deployment as part of NTG 2000 with HMS Cornwall and HMS Sutherland, being joined by FNS Aconit in the Mediterranean. Returned via the Indian Ocean, Yellow Sea, Hawaii and the Panama Canal to Portsmouth on 23 Nov 2000.
Jul 3, 2000 Deployment FF2000 Participated in FF2000 Exercise Flying Fish 2000
Jun 2001 Aircraft 815 Sqn, 201 Flt Lynx XZ726 assigned as /345-NC Newcastle Flt
Aug 24, 2001 Port Visit HMNB Portsmouth Present at IFoS Portsmouth. IFoS 2001 International Festival of Sea 2001
Mar 2002 Deployment FK South Atlantic departed HMNB Portsmouth for Atlantic Patrol Task (South) deployment. Operated around Falkland Islands between Mar 2002 and Aug 2002, relieving HMS Montrose and herself relieved by HMS Westminster. Returned to UK 23 Aug 2002. Atlantic Patrol Task (South)
Feb 12, 2003 Aircraft 815 Sqn, 219 Flt Lynx XZ228 assigned as /345-NC Newcastle Flt
Jul 2003 Aircraft 815 Sqn, 201 Flt Lynx ZD258 assigned as /345-NC Newcastle Flt, until Oct 2004
Jan 2004 Deployment Central Mediterranean departed HMNB Portsmouth on a 7 month maritime security and counter-terrorism deployment to Mediterranean, returning on 6 Aug 2004
Sep 2004 Port Visit Mayflower Park Present at 36th Southampton Boat Show
Oct 2004 Homeport Paid off at HMNB Portsmouth
Jan 2005 Decommissioned
Jul 2006 Fareham Creek by Jul 2006 was laid up in Fareham Creek
Nov 2008 Fate: scrapped TR Aliaga left under tow to Turkey, for scrapping Shipbreakers