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HMS Portchester Castle

British corvette

Summary

British corvette

Field	Value
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section2	{{Infobox ship/career
country	United Kingdom
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name	Portchester Castle
ordered	6 February 1943
builder	Swan Hunter, Wallsend
laid_down	17 March 1943
launched	21 June 1943
identification	Pennant number: K362
fate	paid off 1947 and broken up 14 May 1958
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class
displacement	*1010 LT (standard)
length	252 ft
beam	33 ft
draught	13 ft (deep load)
power	*2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
*{{convert	2880	ihp	lk	in	abbr=on}}
propulsion	1 shaft, 1 triple-expansion engine
speed	16.5 kn
range	6500 nmi at 15 kn
complement	99
sensors	*Type 145 and Type 147 ASDIC
armament	*1 × QF 4 in DP gun
*2 × twin, 2 × single [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon	{{convert	20	mm	1	abbr	on}}]] AA guns

2880 ihp
Type 272 search radar
HF/DF radio direction finder
2 × twin, 2 × single 20 mm AA guns
1 × 3-barrel Squid anti-submarine mortar
1 × depth charge rail and 2 throwers; 15 depth charges HMS Portchester Castle (K362) was a built in 1943 and scrapped in 1958. She was the only ship of the Royal Navy to be named after Portchester Castle in Hampshire. She was involved in the sinking of two German U-boats during her wartime career. Post-war she was used in two feature films and a comedy.

Construction and career

She was launched on 21 June 1943 at Swan Hunter shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Sinking of ''U-484''

On 9 September 1944 Portchester Castle and sank the in the North Atlantic north-west of Ireland, in position .

Sinking of ''U-1200''

As one of four ships in 30th Escort Group under the command of Denys Rayner, Portchester Castle shared in the sinking of the south of Ireland (in position ) on 11 November 1944, along with her sister ships , and .

Decommissioning

She was paid off in 1947 and scrapped at Troon, Scotland on 14 May 1958.

Film appearances

In 1951 Portchester Castle was employed to represent the fictitious HMS Saltash Castle in the film The Cruel Sea (1953). The ship was also seen in the film The Man Who Never Was (1955) and The Navy Lark (1959). In both Sea and Lark she is shown wearing the pennant number F362 rather than her own K362.

Citations

Bibliography

Rayner, D.A., Escort: The Battle of the Atlantic, London: William Kimber, pp. 224–229

References

Wikipedia Source

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