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H.M.S. Newcastle was built of pitch pine in Wigram & Green's yard at Blackwall, on the Thames, and launched on 10 November 1813. A large fourth rate of 1,556 tons and mounting 50 guns, she was 176½ feet in length, with a 44 foot beam. By the time she entered service however, the Napoleonic Wars were drawing to a close and her only action took place off the coast of West Africa.
Sent to North American waters towards the end of the War of 1812, Newcastle, in company with her sister ship Leander and the frigate Acasta, had run back across the Atlantic in pursuit of the U.S.S. Constitution and finally cornered her at Porto da Praia, in the Cape Verde Islands, on 11 March 1815. In the event, Constitution cut her cables and, after a prolonged chase, escaped even though one of the ships with her, the Levant, was taken as a prize. Newcastle saw no further active service after this eventful episode and, in June 1824, was ordered to South Devon where she became guard-ship at The Ness, Teignmouth. Coastal duties occupied her remaining years until she was sold out of service in 1850 and finally broken up in 1853.
Sent to North American waters towards the end of the War of 1812, Newcastle, in company with her sister ship Leander and the frigate Acasta, had run back across the Atlantic in pursuit of the U.S.S. Constitution and finally cornered her at Porto da Praia, in the Cape Verde Islands, on 11 March 1815. In the event, Constitution cut her cables and, after a prolonged chase, escaped even though one of the ships with her, the Levant, was taken as a prize. Newcastle saw no further active service after this eventful episode and, in June 1824, was ordered to South Devon where she became guard-ship at The Ness, Teignmouth. Coastal duties occupied her remaining years until she was sold out of service in 1850 and finally broken up in 1853.