HMS Farnham Castle (K413)
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Name | HMS Farnham Castle |
Namesake | Farnham Castle |
Builder | John Crown & Sons Ltd |
Laid down | 25 June 1943 |
Launched | 25 April 1944 |
Commissioned | 31 January 1945 |
Decommissioned | 1947 |
Identification | Pennant number: K413 |
Fate | Scrapped, 31 October 1960 |
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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) |
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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 |
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HMS Farnham Castle (K413) was a Castle-class corvette of Britain's Royal Navy.
She was laid down at John Crown & Sons Ltd in Sunderland on 25 June 1943 and launched on 25 April 1944 before being commissioned on 31 January 1945 [1]
References
[edit]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.