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|Ship name=HMS ''Newcastle''
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|Ship builder=Sir J. Allin, Sheerness Dockyard
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|Header caption=as built<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p166">Lavery, p.166</ref>
|Ship class=50-gun [[fourth rate]] [[ship of the line]]
|Ship tons burthen=676 [[Builder's old measurement|BOM]]
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|Header caption=after 1732 rebuild<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p170">Lavery, p.170</ref>
|Ship class=[[1719 Establishment]] 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
|Ship tons burthen=759 [[Builder's Old Measurement|bm]]
|Ship length={{convert|134|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} (gundeck)
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* Gundeck: 22 × 18-pdrs
* Upper gundeck: 22 × 9-pdrs
* Quarterdeck: 4 × 6-pdrs
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'''HMS ''Newcastle''''' was a 50-gun [[fourth rate]] [[ship of the line]] of the [[Royal Navy]], built by [[Joseph Allin]] the elder at [[Sheerness Dockyard]] and launched on 10 March 1704.<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p166" />

==Service history==
''Newcastle'' was built at Sheerness by Sir J. Allin, and commissioned in 1704 under the command of Captain Vincent Cutter during the [[War of the Spanish Succession]]. ''Newcastle'' was attached to Admiral [[John Leake|Sir John Leake's]] squadron, and took part in the [[Battle of Cabrita Point]] on 21 March 1705. In 1706-07 she served in Admiral [[George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington|George Byng's]] squadron in the Mediterranean, and by September 1708 was under the command of Captain Henry Herbert as part of Admiral [[James Mighells]]' squadron in the North Sea.<ref name="NMM-WH-372067">{{cite web|url=http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_ii.pdf|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110802041610/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_ii.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 August 2011|title=NMM, vessel ID 372067|work=Warship Histories, vol ii|publisher=[[National Maritime Museum]]|access-date=13 February 2013}}</ref>

She sailed to [[Saint Helena]] in 1709 under the command of Captain Sampson Bourne, and was operating in the [[West Indies]] in 1711, part of the squadron commanded by Commodore [[James Littleton]].<ref name="NMM-WH-372067"/> On 10 June 1711 ''Newcastle'' engaged a French flotilla consisting of a 36-gun ship, a 24-gun hag-boat, nine privateer sloops, and two other vessels off [[Martinique]], successfully driving them "in a very shattered condition" into the harbour of [[Saint-Pierre, Martinique|St. Pierre]], and putting an end to their expedition against [[Antigua]].<ref>Clowes (1897), p.530</ref> On 11 August 1711 she took part in the [[Capture of the San Joaquin|Battle of Cartagena]].<ref name="NMM-WH-372067"/>

In 1713-14 she served under the command of Captain Richard Leake in the West Indies and Newfoundland, in 1717-18 under the command of Captain W. Passenger in Newfoundland and the Straits, and in 1719-20 was commanded by Captain J. Mihill in the Mediterranean,<ref name="NMM-WH-372067"/> returning to Britain in 1721 commanded by Captain [[Edward Falkingham]].<ref name="NMM-WH-372067"/>

Orders were issued on 31 May 1728 for ''Newcastle'' to be taken to pieces and rebuilt at [[Woolwich]] according to the [[1719 Establishment]] of dimensions. She was relaunched on 6 January 1732.<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p170" />

''Newcastle'' was recommissioned and served under the command of Captain Ellis Brand in the West Indies from 1734 until 1736. She was recommissioned under the command of Captain Edward Baker in May 1738, serving in the Mediterranean into 1739. She was under the command of Captain T. Fox from October 1739, serving in the Channel until 1742, then in the Mediterranean until 1744.<ref name="NMM-WH-372067"/> In April 1745 she was under the command of Captain J. Watkins in the Channel.<ref name="NMM-WH-372067"/>

''Newcastle'' was broken up in 1746.<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p170" />

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==References==
* {{Cite book |last1=Clowes |first1=William Laird |author-link1=William Laird Clowes |title=The Royal Navy: A History From the Earliest Times to the Present |url=https://archive.org/details/royalnavy04clow |volume=II |year=1897 |publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & Company |location=London }}
* {{Cite book |last1=Lavery |first1=Brian |author-link1=Brian Lavery |title=The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850 |year=2003 |publisher=Conway Maritime Press |isbn=0-85177-252-8 }}
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