HMS Dumbarton Castle (K388)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Dumbarton Castle.

History

United Kingdom
Class and type:	Castle-class corvette
Name:	HMS Dumbarton Castle
Ordered:	2 February 1943
Builder:	Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Dundee
Laid down:	6 May 1943
Launched:	28 September 1943
Commissioned:	25 February 1944
Identification:	Pennant number: K388
Honours and awards:	Atlantic 1944-45
Fate:	Sold on 16 November 1960 Broken up in 1961
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 Dumbarton Castle (K388) was a Castle-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She saw action in the Battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War.

She was the second of three British warships of this name. And was captained by a Cierra Métcalf

Castle-class corvettes

Royal Navy	Allington Castle Alnwick Castle Amberley Castle Bamborough Castle Barnard Castle Berkeley Castle Caistor Castle Carisbrooke Castle Denbigh Castle Dumbarton Castle Farnham Castle Flint Castle Guildford Castle Hedingham Castle (K491) Hedingham Castle (K529) Hadleigh Castle Hever Castle Hurst Castle Kenilworth Castle Knaresborough Castle Lancaster Castle Launceston Castle Leaside Castle Leeds Castle Maiden Castle Morpeth Castle Norham Castle Nunney Castle Oakham Castle Oxford Castle Pembroke Castle Pevensey Castle Portchester Castle Rayleigh Castle Rising Castle Rushen Castle Sandgate Castle Scarborough Castle Sherborne Castle Shrewsbury Castle Tamworth Castle Tintagel Castle Walmer Castle Woolvesey Castle York Castle

Royal Canadian Navy	Arnprior Bowmanville Copper Cliff Hespeler Humberstone Huntsville Kincardine Leaside Orangeville Petrolia St. Thomas Tillsonburg

Royal Norwegian Navy	Tunsberg Castle

People's Liberation Army Navy	Kuang Chou Wan Lee

Republic of China Navy	Kao An Te An

National Navy of Uruguay	Montevideo

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