HMS Denbigh Castle (K696)
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HMS Denbigh Castle (K696)
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HMS Denbigh Castle (K696) was one of 44 Castle-class corvettes built for the Royal Navy during World War II. The ship was completed at the end of 1944 and was assigned to the 7th Escort Group at the beginning of 1945. While escorting her first and only Arctic convoy to Russia, she claimed to have shot down a German torpedo bomber. Denbigh Castle was torpedoed in early 1945 by the German submarine U-992, with the loss of 11 men, near the Soviet coast. The ship was beached in an effort to save her
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British Castle-class corvettes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Denbigh_Castle_(K696)
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2024-01-21T03:21:55Z
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