Hedingham Castle |
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Name: | HMS Hedingham Castle |
Namesake: | Hedingham Castle |
Builder: | John Crown & Sons Ltd |
Laid down: | 2 November 1943 |
Launched: | 30 October 1944 |
Decommissioned: | August 1945 |
Identification: | Pennant number: K529 |
Fate: | Scrapped April 1958 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Castle-class corvette |
HMS Hedingham Castle was a Castle-class corvette of the Royal Navy named after Hedingham Castle in Essex.
She was originally to have been called Gorey Castle (after Gorey Castle in Jersey). She was launched at John Crown & Sons Ltd in Sunderland on 30 October 1944. In World War II she served as a convoy escort.
She was broken up at Granton in April 1958.
Another Castle-class corvette was originally to have been called Hedingham Castle but she was reallocated to the Royal Canadian Navy before launching and renamed HMCS Orangeville.
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