HMS Pevensey Castle (K449)
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Pevensey Castle |
| Namesake | Pevensey Castle |
| Builder | Harland & Wolff |
| Yard number | 1239 |
| Laid down | 21 June 1943 |
| Launched | 11 January 1944 |
| Completed | 10 June 1944 |
| Commissioned | 10 June 1944 |
| Decommissioned | February 1946 |
| Identification | Pennant number: K449 |
| Fate | Converted to a weather ship in 1959 |
| United Kingdom | |
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| Acquired | 1959 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1982 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class & 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 | 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 Pevensey Castle was a Castle-class corvette built for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy during World War II and saw service during the war as a convoy escort. Following the war, the ship was converted into a weather ship and remained as such until being withdrawn from service in 1981 and scrapped in 1982.