HMS Hadleigh Castle

HMS Hadleigh Castle
Hadleigh Castle in September 1943
Career (United Kingdom)
Name:	HMS Hadleigh Castle (K355)
Namesake:	Hadleigh Castle
Builder:	Smiths Dock Company
Laid down:	4 April 1943
Launched:	21 June 1943
Commissioned:	31 January 1945
Decommissioned:	1946
Fate:	Scrapped, January 1959
General characteristics
Class & 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 Hadleigh Castle (K355) was a Castle-class corvette of Britain's Royal Navy. She was laid down at Smiths Dock in Middlesbrough on 4 April 1943 and launched on 21 June 1943 before being commissioned on 18 September 1943

References

• Brown, David K. (2007). Atlantic Escorts: Ships, Weapons & Tactics in World War II. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84415-702-0. 
• Critchley, Mike (1986). British Warships Since 1945: Part 5: Frigates. Liskeard, UK: Maritime Books. ISBN 0-907771-13-0. 

External links

• HMS Hadleigh Castle (K355) - Castle Class Corvette. Naval-History.net