Navy | The Royal Navy |
Type | Corvette |
Class | Castle |
Pennant | K 413 |
Built by | John Crown & Sons Ltd. (Sunderland, U.K) |
Ordered | 19 Dec 1942 |
Laid down | 26 Jun 1943 |
Launched | 25 Apr 1944 |
Commissioned | 31 Jan 1945 |
End service | |
History | Went into Sheerness Reserve in 1947. |
Commands listed for HMS Farnham Castle (K 413)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Lt. William Eldon Warwick, RNR | 14 Oct 1944 | late 1945 |
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Notable events involving Farnham Castle include:
15 Feb 1945
HMS Unshaken (Lt. J.S. Pearce, RNR) conducted A/S exercises off Tobermory together with HMS Dart (Cdr. J.T. Jones, RD, RNR) and HMS Farnham Castle (Lt. W.E. Warwick, RNR). (1)
Sources
- ADM 173/20150
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.