- HMS Carisbrooke Castle (K379)
HMS "Carisbrooke Castle" (K379) was a
Royal Navy Castle-classcorvette . She was named afterCarisbrooke Castle on theIsle of Wight .She was launched at
Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company , inDundee ,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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