HMS Hedingham Castle (K529)

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

Hedingham Castle
History
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 and 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 film Seagulls Over Sorrento (also called Crest of the Wave) (Roy Boulting – 1954).

References

1. 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.