- HMS Alnwick Castle (K405)
HMS "Alnwick Castle" (K405) was a Castle-class
corvette of the United Kingdom'sRoyal Navy . She was named afterAlnwick Castle inNorthumberland .She was laid down on 12 June 1943 and launched by George Brown and Company at
Greenock inScotland on 23 May 1944. She was commissioned on 11 November 1944 and served as aconvoy escort until the end of theSecond World War .After the war, she was placed in reserve at
Portsmouth where she remained until she was transferred to the reserve atHarwich in 1950 and thence to West Hartlepool until 1958 when she was scrapped. She arrived atGateshead for scrapping on 9 December 1958.
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