HMAS Newcastle (FFG 06)
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| HMAS Newcastle | |
| Adelaide class | |
_pulls_into_Joint_Base_Pearl_Harbor-Hickam,_Hawaii,_to_support_RIMPAC_2010.jpg) HMAS Newcastle in Hawaii, during RIMPAC 2010 |
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| Overview | |
| Type | frigate |
| Shipyard |
Australian Marine Engineering Consolidated |
| Keel laying | July 21, 1989 |
| Launch | February 21, 1992 |
| Namesake | Australian city Newcastle |
| Commissioning | December 11, 1993 |
| Decommissioning | June 30, 2019 |
| home port | Sydney (Fleet Base East) |
| Whereabouts | Sold to Chile in 2019 |
| 2. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | April 15, 2020 |
| Technical specifications | |
| See: Adelaide Class | |
| Identifier (Australia) |
FFG 06 |
| Identifier (Chile) |
FFG 11 |
The HMAS Newcastle was an Adelaide-class frigate of the Royal Australian Navy . It was the sixth unit in its class and named after the Australian city of Newcastle in the state of New South Wales . In 2019 it was sold to Chile and put into service there as Capitán Prat (FFG-11) in 2020 .
history
The HMAS Newcastle was based on the American Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate on 21 July 1989 at the shipyard Marine Engineering Consolidated Australian in Williamstown in the state of Victoria to put Kiel . It was launched on February 21, 1992 and put into service on December 11, 1993.
From December 19, 1999 to January 26, 2000, Newcastle was part of the International Force East Timor during the 1999 East Timor crisis , which took place under Australian leadership. In 2005 a deployment in the Persian Gulf followed .
In early December 2006, the Newcastle was the first of three Australian naval vessels that were on site in Fiji after the coup to evacuate possible Australian citizens from the country. The next two were the amphibious transport ship HMAS Kanimbla and the utility HMAS Success . However, the operation was not necessary, so that the ships returned to Australia at the end of December of that year. In July and August 2010 the frigate took part in the biennial RIMPAC maneuver .
The frigate was decommissioned in Sydney at the end of June 2019.
In December 2019 she was sold to Chile together with the sister ship HMAS Melbourne (FFG 05) . There she was put into service as Capitán Prat (FFG-11) on April 15, 2020.
Awards
Awards included two Battle Honors , one for their service in the International Force East Timor and another for their service in the Persian Gulf in 2002 and 2003 during the War on Terror .
Web links
- HMAS Newcastle on the official website of the Royal Australian Navy
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Stevens: Strength Through Diversity: The combined naval role in Operation Stabilize (= Working Papers), Volume 20. Sea Power Center - Australia, Canberra 2007, ISBN 978064296764, p. 15, ISSN 1834-7231 . Archived from the original on September 10, 2012 (Retrieved April 20, 2012).
- ^ Mark Dodd: No-show by subs slammed . In: The Australian , August 6, 2010. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
- ↑ Australian Navy retires replenishment ship, frigate. Janes, July 1, 2019
- ↑ Nicolás García: La Armada de Chile recibe las fragatas antiaéreas Capitán Prat y Almirante Latorre. In: infodefensa.com. April 16, 2020, accessed April 19, 2020 (Spanish).