HMS Newcastle

The eighth HMS Newcastle was a batch 1 Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy, launched in 1975. Newcastle was decommissioned on 1 February 2005.

United Kingdom
Name: HMS Newcastle
Builder: Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Laid down: 21 February 1973
Launched: 24 April 1975
Commissioned: 23 March 1978
Decommissioned: 1 February 2005
Out of service: 1 February 2005
Homeport: Portsmouth
Identification: Pennant number: D87
Nickname(s): "The Geordie Gunboat"
Honours and
awards:
Scheveningen 1653 Porto Farina 1655 Santa Cruz 1657 Lowestoft 1655 Four Days Battle 1666Orfordness 1666 Schooneveld 1673Texel 1673 Marbella 1705 Sadras 1758 Negapatam 1758 Porto Novo 1759 Spartivento 1940 Burma 1944-1945

Korea 1952-1953
Fate: Scrapped

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Newcastle_(D87)

A great image of HMS Newcastle at sea showing her lines: