HMS Hedingham Castle (K529)

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

History
Hedingham Castle
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Hedingham Castle
Namesake:	Hedingham Castle
Builder:	John Crown & Sons Ltd
Laid down:	2 November 1943
Launched:	30 October 1944
Decommissioned:	August 1945
Identification:	Pennant number: K529
Fate:	Scrapped April 1958
General characteristics
Class & type:	Castle-class corvette

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^[1] 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).

References

↑ Souvenir Programme, Coronation Review of the Fleet, Spithead, 15th June 1953, HMSO, Gale and Polden

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.

Ships built by John Crown & Sons Ltd, Sunderland

Warships	Etterick Farnham Castle Hedingham Castle Burdock Campion Heliotrope Hollyhock Bullrush Bugloss Earraid Filla Gruinard

Tugboats	Empire Ash Empire Belle Empire Demon Empire Dolly Empire Frank Empire Nicholas Empire Phyllis Empire Sally Empire Wold

Colliers	Empire Highlander Empire Lambeth Empire Lowlander

Castle-class corvettes

Royal Navy	Allington Castle Alnwick Castle Amberley Castle Bamborough Castle Barnard Castle Berkeley Castle Caistor Castle Carisbrooke Castle Denbigh Castle Dumbarton Castle Farnham Castle Flint Castle Guildford Castle Hedingham Castle (K491) Hedingham Castle (K529) Hadleigh Castle Hever Castle Hurst Castle Kenilworth Castle Knaresborough Castle Lancaster Castle Launceston Castle Leaside Castle Leeds Castle Maiden Castle Morpeth Castle Norham Castle Nunney Castle Oakham Castle Oxford Castle Pembroke Castle Pevensey Castle Portchester Castle Rayleigh Castle Rising Castle Rushen Castle Sandgate Castle Scarborough Castle Sherborne Castle Shrewsbury Castle Tamworth Castle Tintagel Castle Walmer Castle Woolvesey Castle York Castle

Royal Canadian Navy	Arnprior Bowmanville Copper Cliff Hespeler Humberstone Huntsville Kincardine Leaside Orangeville Petrolia St. Thomas Tillsonburg

Royal Norwegian Navy	Tunsberg Castle

People's Liberation Army Navy	Kuang Chou Wan Lee

Republic of China Navy	Kao An Te An

National Navy of Uruguay	Montevideo

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