HMS Lancaster Castle

Lancaster Castle in March 1945
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Lancaster Castle
Namesake:	Lancaster Castle
Builder:	Fleming & Ferguson
Laid down:	10 September 1943
Launched:	14 April 1944
Commissioned:	15 September 1944
Decommissioned:	1947
Identification:	Pennant number: K691
Fate:	Scrapped, 6 September 1960
General characteristics
Class and type:	Castle-class corvette
Displacement:	1,060 long tons (1,077 t)
Length:	252 ft (77 m)
Beam:	37 ft (11 m)
Draught:	10 ft (3.0 m)
Installed power:	2,750 hp (2.05 MW)
Propulsion:	2 × water-tube boilers 1 × 4-cylinder triple-expansion steam engine Single screw
Speed:	16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph)
Range:	9,500 nmi (17,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	112
Sensors and processing systems:	Type 272 radar Type 144Q sonar Type 147B sonar
Armament:	1 × 4-inch Quick Firing Mk.XIX High Angle/Low Angle combined air/surface gun 1 × Squid anti-submarine mortar 1 × depth charge rail, 15 depth charges 2 × 20 mm twin anti-aircraft cannon 6 × 20 mm single anti-aircraft cannon

HMS Lancaster Castle was a Castle-class corvette of Britain's Royal Navy.

She was laid down at Fleming & Ferguson in Paisley on 10 September 1943 and launched on 14 April 1944 before being commissioned on 15 September 1944.^[1]

References

1. ↑ Uboat.net

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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