HMS Denbigh Castle (K696)

Encyclopedia : H : HM : HMS : HMS Denbigh Castle (K696)

HMS Denbigh Castle (K696) was a Castle-class corvette of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy.

She was built by J. Lewis & Sons Ltd in Aberdeen, Scotland, launched on 5 August 1944, and commissioned on 30 December 1944.

In World War II she served as a convoy escort. While escorting convoy JW-64 to Murmansk she was torpedoed by U-992 in the Barents Sea on 13 February 1945. She was towed by Bluebell to the Kola Inlet, but she capsized and was written off as a total loss.

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.