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Namesake
  
Oxford Castle

Laid down
  
21 June 1943

Commissioned
  
10 March 1944

Launched
  
11 December 1943

Yard number
  
1238

Completed
  
10 March 1944

Construction started
  
21 June 1943

Builder
  
Harland and Wolff

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Name
  
HMS Oxford Castle (K692)

HMS Oxford Castle (K692) was a Castle-class corvette, of United Kingdom's Royal Navy. She was named after Oxford Castle in England.

She was built at Harland and Wolff in Northern Ireland and launched on 11 December 1943. She survived the Second World War and was scrapped at Briton Ferry in September 1960.

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. 

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