| Career (UK) | |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | Castle-class corvette |
| Name: | HMS Rising Castle |
| Ordered: | 23 January 1943 |
| Builder: | Harland and Wolff, Belfast |
| Laid down: | 21 June 1943 |
| Launched: | 8 February 1944 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: K398 |
| Fate: | Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy |
| Career (Canada) | |
| Name: | HMCS Arnprior |
| Commissioned: | 8 June 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 14 March 1946 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: K494 |
| Honours and awards: |
Atlantic 1944-45 |
| Fate: | Sold to Uruguay in 1946 and renamed Montevideo |
| Career (Uruguay) | |
| Name: | Montevideo |
| Acquired: | 1946 |
| Fate: | Sold in 1975 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,060 tons |
| Length: | 252 ft (77 m) |
| Beam: | 37 ft (11 m) |
| Draught: | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 water tube boilers, 1 four cylinder triple expansion steam engine driving a single screw 2,750hp (2MW) |
| Speed: | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h) |
| Range: | 9,500 nautical miles (17,600 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 112 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Radar: Type 272 Sonar: Types 144Q and 147B |
| Armament: | 1 × 4-inch Quick Firing Mk.XIX High Angle/Low Angle combined air/surface gun 1 × Squid Anti-submarine mortar 1 × depth charge rail, 15 depth charges 2 × 20 mm twin anti-aircraft cannon 6 × 20 mm single anti-aircraft cannon |
HMS Rising Castle was a Castle-class corvette of the Royal Navy.
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Rising Castle was built by Harland and Wolff, Belfast and laid down on 21 June 1943. She was launched on 8 February 1944, but was then transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and commissioned as HMCS Arnprior (with a new pennant number) on 8 June 1944. She was then completed on 26 June 1944.
Arnprior was commanded by Lieutenant Charles Van Laughton. He also commanded Agassiz and Cobalt during the war.[1][2] She worked up at Tobermory, after which she was assigned to the 1st Escort Group, based at Derry. She sailed with convoy ONM-249 on 19 August 1944. She spent the rest of the Second World War serving in the Atlantic as a convoy escort. After the end of the war in June 1945, Arnprior was refitted at St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. The refit lasted for two months and was then based at Halifax.
She was finally decommissioned on 14 March 1946 and was sold to Uruguay. They renamed her Montevideo and operated her as a training ship until 1975.[3]
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