 |
Business | Industries | Finance | Tax |
| Index: > A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
|
|||||
| General Characteristics (original configuration) | |
|---|---|
| Displacement: | 1,060 tons |
| Length: | 252 feet (76.8 m) |
| Beam: | 37 feet (11.3 m) |
| Draught: | 10 feet (3.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 water tube boilers, 1 four cylinder triple expansion steam engine driving a single screw 2,750 hp |
| Speed: | 16.5 knots maximum, 10 knots cruising |
| Range: | 9,500 nautical miles at 10 knots |
| Complement: | 112 |
| Armament: | One 4 inch Quick Firing Mk.XIX High Angle/Low Angle combined air/surface gun 1 Squid Anti-submarine mortar 1 depth charge rail, 15 depth charges Two 20mm twin anti-aircraft cannon and six 20mm single cannon. |
| Radar: | Type 272 originally |
| Sonar | Types 144Q and 147B originally |
The Castle-class corvettes were an updated version of the much more numerous British Second World War Flower-class corvettes, and started appearing during late 1943. They were equipped with radar as well as sonar.
The Admiralty had decided to cease Flower class construction in favour of the larger River class frigate s as the Flower class had originally been intended for coastal escort work and were not entirely satisfactory for mid-Atlantic escorts. In particular, they were slow, poorly armed, and rolled badly in a rough sea which quickly exhausted their crews. However, many shipyards were not large enough to build the new frigates and so the Castle class was designed to be built by them.
Appearance was much like the later 'long forecastle' variant of the Flowers and they were a little larger (around 1,200 tons - about 200 tons more than the Flowers, and 40 feet longer).
The most obvious difference was the lattice mainmast instead of the pole one fitted to the Flowers. There was also a more 'square cut' look to the stern although it was still essentially a cruiser spoon type, this difference was only visible from abaft the beam.
Armament was similar except that the depth charge fitment had been replaced by one for the Squid anti- submarine mortar.
Propulsion machinery was identical to the Flowers, and experienced officers felt that they were seriously under powered, having a tendency to turn into the wind despite everything the helmsman could do. The fact that attacks with Squid required a fairly low speed compared to depth charge attacks only made matters worse.
Most had been scrapped by the end of the 1950s, but a few survived a little longer as weather ships. However, the last was the UruguayanThe Eastern Republic of Uruguay (translated from the Spanish Republica Oriental del Uruguay , is a country in southern South America, bordered by Brazil to the north, the Uruguay River to the west, the estuary of the Rio de la Plata (River Plate) to the s Montevideo, originally HMS Rising Castle and scrapped in 1975Events January January 1 Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21 January 5 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, i.
Most were operated by the Royal NavyThe Royal Navy is the navy of the United Kingdom. It operates a number of aircraft carriers, destroyers, frigates, fifteen nuclear submarines, and various other ships, as well as aircraft and Britain's amphibious forces, the Royal Marines. The Royal Navy, but twelve were assigned to the Royal Canadian NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy RCN was the navy of Canada from 1911 until 1968 when the three branches of the Canadian military were merged into the Canadian Armed Forces. The modern Canadian navy has been known as Canadian Forces Maritime Command (MARCOM) since and one to the Free Norwegian Forces . Three were sunk through enemy action.
| Politics | Business | Finance |
 |
 |
 |
|