HMS Rising Castle was a Castle-class corvette built for the Royal Navy in World War II. She was named for Castle Rising in Norfolk, England. Before she was commissioned she was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and renamed Arnprior and given a new pennant number. After the war she was sold to Uruguay and renamed Montevideo.
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HMSRisingCastle was a Castle-class corvette built for the Royal Navy in World War II. She was named for CastleRising in Norfolk, England. Before she...
1892), it was incorporated as a town. On June 8, 1944, a Castle-class corvette, HMSRisingCastle, was recommissioned as HMCS Arnprior until 1946. Arnprior...
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