![]() Oxford Castle in March 1944 | |
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Name | Oxford Castle |
Namesake | Oxford Castle |
Builder | Harland & Wolff |
Yard number | 1238 [1] |
Laid down | 21 June 1943 |
Launched | 11 December 1943 |
Completed | 10 March 1944 [1] |
Commissioned | 10 March 1944 |
Decommissioned | 1946 |
Identification | Pennant number: K692 |
Fate | Scrapped, 6 September 1960 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Castle-class corvette |
Displacement | 1,010 long tons (1,030 t) (standard) |
Length | 252 ft (76.8 m) |
Beam | 33 ft (10.1 m) |
Draught | 13 ft 9 in (4.2 m) (deep load) |
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Propulsion | 1 shaft, 1 triple-expansion engine |
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 Oxford Castle (K692) was a Castle-class corvette, built for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy during the Second World War. She was named after Oxford Castle in England.
She was built at Harland & Wolff in Northern Ireland and launched on 11 December 1943. She survived the Second World War and was scrapped at Briton Ferry in September 1960.