HMS Carisbrooke Castle (K379)

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HMS Carisbrooke Castle (K379) was a Royal Navy Castle-class corvette. She was named after Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight.

She was launched at Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. in Dundee, Scotland on 31 July 1943 and commissioned on 17 November 1943.

After World War II her career was spent in the fleet reserve until May 1952, when she became part of the Second Training Squadron at Portland where she remained until 1956. She took part in the Coronation Review in 1953.

In November 1956 she was placed back in the reserve until she was scrapped at Faslane in 1958.

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