HMS Oxford Castle (K692) was a Castle-class corvette, of United Kingdom's Royal Navy. She was named after Oxford Castle in England.
Oxford Castle in March 1944
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Oxford Castle |
Namesake | Oxford Castle |
Builder | Harland and Wolff |
Yard number | 1238[1] |
Laid down | 21 June 1943 |
Launched | 11 December 1943 |
Completed | 10 March 1944[1] |
Commissioned | 10 March 1944 |
Decommissioned | 1946 |
Identification | Pennant number: K692 |
Fate | Scrapped, 6 September 1960 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Castle-class corvette |
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.
References
edit- ^ a b McCluskie, Tom (2013). The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff. Stroud: The History Press. p. 154. ISBN 9780752488615.
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.