HMS Hedingham Castle (K529)

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History
Hedingham Castle
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Hedingham Castle
Namesake	Hedingham Castle
Builder	John Crown & Sons Ltd
Laid down	2 November 1943
Launched	30 October 1944
Decommissioned	August 1945
Identification	Pennant number: K529
Fate	Scrapped April 1958
General characteristics
Class and type	Castle-class corvette

HMS Hedingham Castle was a Castle-class corvette of the Royal Navy named after Hedingham Castle in Essex.

She was originally to have been called Gorey Castle (after Mont Orgueil in Jersey). She was launched at John Crown & Sons Ltd in Sunderland on 30 October 1944. In World War II she served as a convoy escort.

In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II^[1] and was broken up at Granton in April 1958.

Another Castle-class corvette was originally to have been called Hedingham Castle but she was reallocated to the Royal Canadian Navy before launching and renamed HMCS Orangeville.

She plays in the film Seagulls Over Sorrento (also called Crest of the Wave) (Roy Boulting – 1954).

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.

v t e Ships built by John Crown & Sons, Sunderland
Warships	Etterick Farnham Castle Hedingham Castle Burdock Campion Heliotrope Hollyhock Bullrush Bugloss Earraid Filla Gruinard
Tugboats	Empire Ash Empire Belle Empire Demon Empire Dolly Empire Frank Empire Nicholas Empire Phyllis Empire Sally Empire Wold
Colliers	Empire Highlander Empire Lambeth Empire Lowlander

v t e Castle-class corvettes
Royal Navy	Allington Castle Alnwick Castle Amberley Castle Bamborough Castle Barnard Castle Berkeley Castle Caistor Castle Carisbrooke Castle Denbigh Castle Dumbarton Castle Farnham Castle Flint Castle Guildford Castle Hedingham Castle (K491) Hedingham Castle (K529) Hadleigh Castle Hever Castle Hurst Castle Kenilworth Castle Knaresborough Castle Lancaster Castle Launceston Castle Leeds Castle Maiden Castle Morpeth Castle Norham Castle Nunney Castle Oakham Castle Oxford Castle Pembroke Castle Pevensey Castle Portchester Castle Rayleigh Castle Rising Castle Rushen Castle Sandgate Castle Scarborough Castle Sherborne Castle Shrewsbury Castle Tamworth Castle Tintagel Castle Walmer Castle Woolvesey Castle York Castle
Royal Canadian Navy	Arnprior Bowmanville Copper Cliff Hespeler Humberstone Huntsville Kincardine Leaside Orangeville Petrolia St. Thomas Tillsonburg
Royal Norwegian Navy	Tunsberg Castle
People's Liberation Army Navy	Kuang Chou Wan Lee
Republic of China Navy	Kao An Te An
National Navy of Uruguay	Montevideo

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