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Guided missile frigate HMAS Newcastle (FFG-06)

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Classification

Ship class:
Adelaide-class frigate Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
Type:
Frigate

Basic information

Namesake:
City of Newcastle
Renaming:
  • CNS Capitan Plat (FFG-11) (15.04.2020-present)
Operator:
Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile)Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile) Royal Australian NavyRoyal Australian Navy
Country of build:
Builder:
BAE Systems Australia
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Status:
Active
Fate:
Sold to Chile

Ship measurements

Displacement:
4,100 t
Length:
138.1 m
Beam:
13.7 m
Draft:
7.5 m

Machine

Propulsion system:
COGAG
Propulsion:
  • 2 * General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 41,000 hp (30,574 kW), 1 * shaft
  • 2 * 650 hp (485 kW) auxiliary propulsors
Speed:
29 knots
Range:
4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)

Personnel

Complement:
199

Combat assets

Electronics:
  • AN/SPS-49 air search radar
  • AN/SPS-55 surface search and navigation radar
  • SPG-60 fire control radar (Mark 92 fire control system)
  • AN/SQS-56 hull-mounted sonar
Armament:
  • 1 * Mark 13 Missile Launcher for Harpoon and Standard missiles
  • 1 * 8-cell Mark 41 VLS with Evolved Sea Sparrow missiles
  • 2 * Mark 32 torpedo tubes
  • 1 * OTO Melara 76 mm naval gun
  • 1 * 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
  • Up to 6 * 12.7-millimetre (0.50 in) machine guns
  • 2 * M2HB .50 calibre Mini Typhoons (fitted as required)
Aircraft:
  • 2 * S-70B Seahawk or 1 * Seahawk and 1 * AS350B Squirrel

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. She was the frigate long-hull variant (Flight II). 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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