HMS Alnwick Castle (K405)

Alnwick Castle in November 1944
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Alnwick Castle
Namesake: Alnwick Castle
Laid down: 12 June 1943
Launched: 23 May 1944
Commissioned: 11 November 1944
Identification: Pennant number: K405
Fate: Scrapped in 1958
General characteristics
Class and type: Castle-class corvette
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 2,750 hp (2,050 kW)
Speed: 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) maximum
Range: 9,500 nmi (17,600 km; 10,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 112
Sensors and
processing systems:		 Radar - Type 272 originally, Sonar - Types 144Q and 147B originally
Armament:

HMS Alnwick Castle was a Castle-class corvette of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. She was named after Alnwick Castle in Northumberland.

She was laid down on 12 June 1943 and launched by George Brown and Company at Greenock in Scotland on 23 May 1944. She was commissioned on 11 November 1944 and served as a convoy escort until the end of the Second World War.

From 20 July 1944 to mid 1945, the Alnwick Castle was commanded by Herbert Arthur Stonehouse (DSO and bar).[1]

After the war, she was placed in reserve at Portsmouth where she remained until she was transferred to the reserve at Harwich in 1950 and thence to West Hartlepool until 1958 when she was scrapped. She arrived at Gateshead for scrapping on 9 December 1958.

References and sources

References
  1. ↑ Herbert Arthur Stonehouse DSC, RNR. uboat.net Retrieved 4 November 2015.
Sources
  • 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. OCLC 67375475.
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