HMS Hedingham Castle (K529)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Hedingham Castle.

Hedingham Castle
History
United Kingdom
Name	Hedingham Castle
Namesake	Hedingham Castle
Builder	John Crown & Sons
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
Displacement	1,060 long tons (1,077 t)
Length	252 ft (76.8 m)
Beam	37 ft (11.3 m)
Draught	10 ft (3.0 m)
Installed power	2 × water-tube boilers 2,750 ihp (2,050 kW)
Propulsion	1 screw; 1 triple-expansion steam engine
Speed	16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph)
Range	9,500 nmi (17,600 km; 10,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	112
Sensors and processing systems	Type 272 radar Type 144Q sonar Type 147B sonar
Armament	1 × single 4 in (102 mm) DP gun 1 × Squid anti-submarine mortar 1 × depth charge rail, 15 depth charges 2 × twin 20 mm (0.8 in) AA guns Up to 6 × single 20 mm AA guns

HMS Hedingham Castle was a Castle-class corvette built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. The ship was named after Hedingham Castle in Essex. During the war Hedingham Castle served as a convoy escort.

Construction amd career

She was launched at John Crown & Sons in Sunderland on 30 October 1944. The ship was originally to have been called Gorey Castle (after Mont Orgueil in Jersey).

In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II 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).

Publications

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.