HMS Knaresborough Castle (K389)
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Name | Knaresborough Castle |
Namesake | Knaresborough Castle |
Ordered | 19 January 1943 |
Launched | 29 September 1943 |
Identification | Pennant number: K389 |
Fate | Scrapped 16 March 1956 |
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Class and type | Castle-class corvette |
Displacement | 1,010 long tons (1,030 t) (standard) |
Length | 252 ft (76.8 m) |
Beam | 33 ft (10.1 m) |
Draught | 13 ft 9 in (4.2 m) (deep load) |
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Propulsion | 1 shaft, 1 triple-expansion engine |
Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
Range | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 99 |
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HMS Knaresborough Castle (K389) was a Castle-class corvette built for the Royal Navy, under the 1943 War Programme, and named after Knaresborough Castle in Yorkshire, England.
Construction and career
[edit]She was ordered on 19 January 1943, launched at Blyth Shipyard in Blyth, Northumberland, on 29 September 1943 and completed on 5 April 1944. She was scrapped at Glasgow in March 1956. The ship's bell hangs in St John's Church of England Primary school in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England.
In World War II she served as a convoy escort.
In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.[1]
Citations
[edit]- ^ Souvenir Programme, Coronation Review of the Fleet, Spithead, 15th June 1953, HMSO, Gale and Polden
References
[edit]- Campbell, N. J. M. (1980). "Great Britain (including Empire Forces)". In Chesneau, Roger (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. pp. 2–85. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Goodwin, Norman; compiled by (2007). Castle Class Corvettes: An Account of the Service of the Ships and of Their Ships' Companies. Liskeard, UK: Maritime Books. ISBN 978-1-904459-27-9.
- Lenton, H. T. (1998). British & Empire Warships of the Second World War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-048-7.