HMS Hedingham Castle (K529)
- HMS Hedingham Castle (K529)
HMS "Hedingham Castle" (K529) was a Castle-class corvette of the Royal Navy named after Hedingham Castle in Essex.
Shje was originally to have been called "Gorey Castle" (after Gorey Castle 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. She 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".
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