Summary
HMS Hedingham Castle was a Castle-class corvette of the Royal Navy named after Hedingham Castle in Essex.
 Hedingham Castle
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| 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 |
She was originally to have been called Gorey Castle (after Mont Orgueil 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.
In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II[1] and 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.
She plays in the film Seagulls Over Sorrento (also called Crest of the Wave) (Roy Boulting – 1954).
References edit
- ^ Souvenir Programme, Coronation Review of the Fleet, Spithead, 15th June 1953, HMSO, Gale and Polden
Publications edit
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.