Castle Harbour, prior to her armament and commissioning as a Royal Navy warship.
History
United Kingdom
Name
Castle Harbour
Builder
Blythswood Shipbuilding Co. Ltd
Launched
1929
Completed
1929
Homeport
Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda
Fate
Sunk 16 October 1942 by U-160
General characteristics
HMS Castle Harbour was a civilian harbour vessel of 730 tons that was taken-up from trade (TUFT) during the Second World War by the Royal Naval Dockyard in Bermuda for use by the Royal Naval Examination Service and later armed and commissioned as a warship, providing harbour defence from submarines.
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Crew of HMSCastleHarbour in the Second World War. Pistol-armed Royal Naval Examination Service personnel, wearing 1937 Pattern belts and holsters, boarded...
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outside of Bermuda's barrier reef, leaving the enclosed waters to HMSCastleHarbour, then HMS Sumar). Evadne remained in Bermuda until being reallocated to...
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The Lizard. HMS Chester (1708) was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1708. She was on harbour service from 1743 and was broken up in 1750. HMS Chester (1743)...
1778. HMS Cerberus (1779) was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1779 and wrecked attempting to exit CastleHarbour, Bermuda, via Castle Roads in...
1679 as HMS Duchess. She was renamed HMS Princess Anne in 1701, HMS Windsor Castle in 1702, and HMS Blenheim in 1706. She was broken up in 1763. HMS Blenheim (1761)...
War II (1939–1945), the first Coastal Forces headquarters was set up at HMS Vernon in 1940 under Rear Admiral Piers Kekewich, Flag Officer Coastal Forces...
was broken up in 1869. HMS Cambridge (1869) was a 116-gun first rate launched in 1858 as HMS Windsor Castle. She was renamed HMS Cambridge in 1869 when...
decommissioned in 2001. Converted to a static harbour training ship in Dartmouth, Hindostan. HMS Cromer Castle Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]...
as it passed 50 miles east-northeast of Trinidad. One torpedo hit HMSCastleHarbour, blowing off her bow and causing her to sink in 20 seconds. 30 seconds...
the 1953 film version HMS Saltash was depicted by Castle-class corvette: HMS Portchester Castle, and hence named "Saltash Castle"). As with the Flower...
the Sultan of Zanzibar. She was built in the style of the British frigate HMS Glasgow which had visited the Sultan in 1873. Glasgow cost the Sultan £32...
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