Name HMS Hedingham Castle Laid down 2 November 1943 Identification Pennant number K529 Construction started 2 November 1943 Builder John Crown & Sons | Namesake Hedingham Castle Decommissioned August 1945 Fate Scrapped April 1958 Launched 30 October 1944 | |
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HMS Hedingham Castle was a Castle-class corvette of the Royal Navy named after Hedingham Castle in Essex.
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 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 movie 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. OCLC 67375475.