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'''HMS ''Hurst Castle'' (K416)''' was one of 44 {{sclass2|Castle|corvette}}s built for the [[Royal Navy]] during [[World War II]]. Completed in June 1944, she began escorting [[convoy]]s in August and was sunk by a German [[U-boat]] the following month.
'''HMS ''Hurst Castle'' (K416)''' was one of 44 {{sclass2|Castle|corvette}}s built for the [[Royal Navy]] during [[World War II]]. Completed in June 1944, she began escorting [[convoy]]s in August and was sunk by a German [[U-boat]] the following month.


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HMS Hurst Castle (K416) was one of 44 Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".s built for the Royal Navy during World War II. Completed in June 1944, she began escorting convoys in August and was sunk by a German U-boat the following month.

Design and description

The Castle-class corvette was a stretched version of the preceding Flower class, enlarged to improve seakeeping and to accommodate modern weapons. The ships displaced Script error: No such module "convert". at standard load and Script error: No such module "convert". at deep load. They had an overall length of Script error: No such module "convert"., a beam of Script error: No such module "convert". and a deep draught of Script error: No such module "convert".. They were powered by a pair of triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by two Admiralty three-drum boilers. The engines developed a total of Script error: No such module "convert". and gave a maximum speed of Script error: No such module "convert".. The Castles carried enough fuel oil to give them a range of Script error: No such module "convert". at Script error: No such module "convert".. The ships' complement was 99 officers and ratings.[1]

The Castle-class ships were equipped with a single QF Script error: No such module "convert". Mk XVI gun forward, but their primary weapon was their single three-barrel Squid anti-submarine mortar. This was backed up by one depth charge rail and two throwers for 15 depth charges. The ships were fitted with two twin and a pair of single mounts for Script error: No such module "convert". Oerlikon light AA guns.[2] Provision was made for a further four single mounts if needed. They were equipped with Type 145Q and Type 147B ASDIC sets to detect submarines by reflections from sound waves beamed into the water. A Type 277 search radar and a HF/DF radio direction finder rounded out the Castles' sensor suite.[3]

Construction and career

Hurst Castle, the only ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,[4] was ordered on 2 February 1943 from Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company and was laid down at their shipyard in Dundee on 6 August.[5] She was launched on 23 February 1944 and was completed on 9 June. The ship sailed to the anti-submarine training base in Tobermory, Mull, HMS Western Isles, for working up. Hurst Castle was assigned to Escort Group B3 on 3 July and escorted Convoy OS 85/KMS 59 from Britain to Gibraltar on 2 August. The group escorted Convoy SL 167/MKS 58 from Gibraltar to the UK later that month.[6]

On 30 August Hurst Castle and her sister ship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". departed Derry, Northern Ireland, to rendezvous with Force 33 the following day. After meeting up with the other ships, they were tasked to search for the Template:GS which had been spotted by a Royal Air Force Consolidated B-24 Liberator patrol aircraft on the morning of 1 September. At 08:25, Hurst Castle was struck port side aft by a torpedo fired by the submarine; the ship sank in six minutes at Script error: No such module "Coordinates". with the loss of 17 ratings. The escort destroyer Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". rescued all 102 survivors.[7]

Citations

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  1. ↑ Lenton, p. 297
  2. ↑ Chesneau, p. 63; Lenton, p. 297
  3. ↑ Goodwin, p. 3
  4. ↑ Colledge & Warlow, p. 168
  5. ↑ Lenton, p. 299
  6. ↑ Goodwin, p. 177
  7. ↑ Goodwin, pp. 178–179; Rohwer, p. 353

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