Tunsberg Castle 1944
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
Tunsberg Castle (ex-Shrewsbury Castle) | Swan Hunter, Wallsend, UK | 5.1943 | 16.8.1943 | 4.1944 | sunk 12.12.1944 |
Displacement
standard, t 1010 Displacement
full, t 1590 Length, m 68.6 pp 76.8
oa Breadth, m 11.2 Draught, m 4.11
deep load No of shafts 1 Machinery 1 VTE, 2
Admiralty 3-drum boilers Power, h. p. 2750 Max speed, kts 16.5 Fuel, t oil 480 Armament 1 x 1 - 102/40
QF Mk XIX, 2 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon
Mk II/IV, 1
x 3 - 305
Squid Mk IV ASWRL, 2 DCT, 1
DCR (15) Electronic equipment type 271 or
type 272 radar, type 144, type 147 sonars Complement 120
Endurance, nm(kts)
6200(15)
Project history: British Castle-class corvette, the further development of successful "Flower" class.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Tunsberg Castle was mined 12.12.1944 on approaches to Kola bay.
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