&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:HMS_Flint_Castle_(K383).jpg) Flint Castle
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Flint Castle |
| Namesake | Flint Castle |
| Ordered | 19 January 1943 |
| Builder | Henry Robb, Leith, Scotland |
| Laid down | 20 April 1943 |
| Launched | 1 September 1943 |
| Completed | 31 December 1943 |
| Out of service | March 1956 |
| Identification | Pennant number: K383 |
| Honours and awards | Atlantic 1944–45 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 1956 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Castle-class corvette |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 252 ft (76.8 m) |
| Beam | 33 ft (10.1 m) |
| Draught | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 geared steam turbines |
| Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
| Range | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 99 |
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HMS Flint Castle (K383) was one of 44 Castle-class corvettes built for the Royal Navy during World War II. Completed at the end of 1943, the ship ran aground while training in January 1944. After repairs were completed the following month, she was briefly assigned to the 39th Escort Group for convoy escort duties in the Atlantic Ocean. Flint Castle was transferred to Escort Group B2 in March and screened convoys to and from Gibraltar until September. That month, she joined Escort Group B3 to escort convoys between Canada and Britain and continued to do so until the end of the war in May 1945. The ship then became an anti-submarine training ship in Rosyth and Campbeltown, Scotland, before moving to Portland at the beginning of 1947. Flint Castle remained there until she was taken out of service in March 1956 and broken up beginning in July 1958.