HMS Hurst Castle (K416)
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HMS Hurst Castle
HMS Hurst Castle underway in the Firth of Tay on completion.
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Name: | HMS Hurst Castle |
Builder: | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Dundee |
Laid down: | 6 August 1943 |
Launched: | 23 February 1944 |
Commissioned: | 9 June 1944 |
Fate: | Sunk by U-482 on 1 September 1944 |
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Type: | 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 Hurst Castle (K416) was a Castle-class corvette of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. She was named after Hurst Castle at the western end of the Solent in Southern England.
Built by the Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company in Dundee and launched on 23 February 1944, she served as a convoy escort during the Second World War. She was sunk by the German submarine U-482 on 1 September 1944 northwest of Ireland whilst part of the escort for convoy CU-36. The submarine fired a single T-5 Gnat - German Navy Acoustic Torpedo. Sixteen of the ship's company were killed, the youngest, Donald Bennett, being only sixteen.
Only one other Castle-class corvette was sunk by U-boats, HMS Denbigh Castle on 13 February 1945.
In January 2007 there were still five crew members living around the UK.[citation needed]
The wreck of HMS Hurst Castle was discovered at a depth of 85 metres, and on 23 October 2011 Barry McGill became the first person to dive the wreck, operating from MV Rosguill. Rosguill Charters
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