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HMS Rising Castle
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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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Name | Rising Castle |
Namesake | Castle Rising |
Ordered | 23 January 1943 |
Builder | Harland and Wolff, Belfast |
Yard number | 1240[1] |
Laid down | 21 June 1943 |
Launched | 8 February 1944 |
Completed | 26 June 1944[1] |
Identification | Pennant number: K398 |
Fate | Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy |
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Name | Arnprior |
Namesake | Arnprior, Ontario |
Commissioned | 8 June 1944 |
Decommissioned | 14 March 1946 |
Identification | Pennant number: K494 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1944–45[2] |
Fate | Sold to Uruguay in 1946 and renamed Montevideo |
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Name | Montevideo |
Operator | National Navy of Uruguay |
Acquired | 1946 |
Decommissioned | 1975 |
Fate | Sold in 1975 |
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Type | Castle-class corvette |
Displacement | 1,060 long tons (1,077 t) |
Length | 252 ft (77 m) |
Beam | 36 ft 8 in (11.18 m) |
Draught | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
Installed power | 2,750 ihp (2,050 kW) |
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Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
Range | 9,500 nmi (17,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 112 |
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