Naval art
prints of HMS Newcastle by Robert Taylor. HMS Newcastle was built
by Vickers Armstrong and launched laid down on the 4th October
1934 and launched 23rd January 1936 and completed 5th march 1937. Served
in the home Fleet 1939 to 1941, transferring to the Atlantic fleet 1941
to 1942, then to the eastern Fleet 1942- 1944, and again moving to the
East Indies 1944- 1945, until returning to the Home Fleet late in 1945.
finally being scrapped at Faslane, Scotland 19th August 1959.
Armament:
Twelve 6 inch guns in threes. Eight 4 inch anti-aircraft guns in pairs and
eight 2pdr anti-aircraft guns in pairs as well as eight 0.5 inch machine
guns in fours. Six 21 inch torpedo tubes in threes and 3 aircraft.
Night Attack on the Newcastle by Robert Taylor.
Hit and run attacks by fast moving German E-Boats were a constant threat to vital Allied shipping in the Mediterranean during the second World War. Often made under cover of darkness, these fast, highly manoeuvrable craft would speed through a convoy, release their torpedoes, and disappear into the night. During the night of 15 June 1942 German E-Boats of the 3rd Flotilla left their Eastern Mediterranean base at Derna to intercept an Allied convoy bound for the island of Malta. Shortly after midnight, under the command of Leutnant Seigfried Wuppermann, the motor torpedo boat S-56 slipped past two Royal Navy escort destroyers to make a stern attack on the British cruiser HMS Newcastle. Alerted to the incoming attack, suddenly a searchlight at Newcastles foremast switched on, illuminating S-56 from stem to stern. Reacting quickly, Wuppermann fired two torpedoes in quick succession from 600 yards, and turned hard to starboard to make good his escape. A second searchlight aboard Newcastle.........
