HMS Rising Castle (K398)

As HMCS Arnprior
Career (United Kingdom)
Name: Rising Castle
Namesake: Castle Rising
Operator: Royal Navy
Ordered: 23 January 1943
Builder: Harland and Wolff, Belfast
Yard number: 1240[1]
Laid down: 21 June 1943
Launched: 8 February 1944
Completed: 26 June 1944[1]
Identification: Pennant number: K398
Fate: Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy
Career (Canada)
Name: Arnprior
Namesake: Arnprior, Ontario
Operator: Royal Canadian Navy
Commissioned: 8 June 1944
Decommissioned: 14 March 1946
Identification: Pennant number: K494
Honours and
awards:		 Atlantic 1944-45[2]
Fate: Sold to Uruguay in 1946 and renamed Montevideo
Career (Uruguay)
Name: Montevideo
Operator: National Navy of Uruguay
Acquired: 1946
Decommissioned: 1975
Fate: Sold in 1975
General characteristics
Type:Castle-class corvette
Displacement:1,060 long tons (1,077 t)
Length:252 ft (77 m)
Beam:37 ft (11 m)
Draught:10 ft (3.0 m)
Installed power:2,750 hp (2.05 MW)
Propulsion:2 × water-tube boilers
1 × 4-cylinder triple-expansion steam engine
Single screw
Speed:16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph)
Range:9,500 nmi (17,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:112
Sensors and
processing systems:		Type 272 radar
Type 144Q sonar
Type 147B sonar
Armament:1 × 4-inch (102-mm) 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 built for the Royal Navy in World War II. She was named for Castle Rising in Norfolk, England. Before she was commissioned she was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and renamed Arnprior and given a new pennant number. After the war she was sold to Uruguay and renamed Montevideo.

Construction and commissioning

Rising Castle was ordered on 23 January 1943.[3] She 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.

War service

Arnprior was commanded by Lieutenant Charles Van Laughton. He also commanded Agassiz and Cobalt during the war.[4][5] 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 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 she was then based at Halifax.[6]

Postwar service

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.[7][6]

References

Notes
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 McCluskie, Tom (2013). The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff. Stroud: The History Press. p. 155. ISBN 9780752488615.
  2. ↑ "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  3. ↑ "HMCS Arnprior (K494)". uboat.net. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  4. ↑ Richard Laughton on ww2chat
  5. ↑ Obituary of Charles Van Laughton
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Macpherson, Ken; Burgess, John (1981). The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910–1981 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships. Toronto: Collins. ISBN 0-00216-856-1.
  7. ↑ K-494 at navy.gc.ca
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