- HMS Amberley Castle (K386)
HMS "Amberley Castle" (K386) was a Castle-class
corvette of the United Kingdom'sRoyal Navy . She was named afterAmberley Castle nearArundel inWest Sussex .Laid down at S.P. Austin & Son Ltd. shipyard in
Sunderland on 31 May 1943 she was launched on 27 November 1943 and commissioned on 24 November 1944. She served as aconvoy escort until the end of the war when she was put into reserve atPortsmouth until 1952. She was in reserve atPenarth from 1953 until 1957 when she was converted to aweather ship at Blyth inNorthumberland and renamed "Weather Advisor".She served in this role from 28 September 1960 onwards until she was again extensively updated in July 1976 at
Manchester dry docks, and renamed "Admiral Fitzroy" after the British vice-admiralRobert FitzRoy , the first director of the forerunner to the BritishMeteorological Office . The ship was finally scrapped atTroon in 1982.
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