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| Career (UK) |  |
| Name: | HMS Flint Castle (K383) |
| Builder: | Henry Robb |
| Laid down: | 20 April 1943 |
| Launched: | 1 September 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 31 December 1944 |
| Fate: | Scrapped July 1958 |
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| Class & type: | Castle-class corvette |
HMS Flint Castle (K383) was a Castle-class corvette of Britain's Royal Navy. She was named after Flint Castle in North East Wales.
Built by Henry Robb at Leith, she was laid down on 20 April 1943 and launched on 1 September 1943. Commissioned on 31 December 1944 she served with the Clyde Escort Force until November 1945. She was then transferred to the Second Training Squadron at Portland where she remained until March 1956. In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.[1] She was placed in reserve, at Devonport Dockyard, until she was scrapped at Faslane in July 1958.
She was used to portray a German anti-submarine vessel in the 1955 movie The Cockleshell Heroes.
Commanding officers[]
| From | To | Captain |
|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 1953 | Lieutenant-Commander J D O Hinton RN |
| 1955 | 1956 |
References[]
- ↑ 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. OCLC 67375475.
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