HMS Pevensey Castle (K449)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Pevensey Castle
Namesake	Pevensey Castle
Builder	Harland and Wolff
Yard number	1239[1]
Laid down	21 June 1943
Launched	11 January 1944
Completed	10 June 1944[1]
Commissioned	10 June 1944
Decommissioned	February 1946
Identification	Pennant number: K449
Fate	Converted to a weather ship in 1959
United Kingdom
Name	Weather Monitor (1962) Admiral Beaufort (1976)
Acquired	1959
Fate	Scrapped, 1982
General characteristics
Class and type	Castle-class corvette

HMS Pevensey Castle was a Castle-class corvette of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. The ship was constructed 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 Following the war, the ship was converted into a weather ship and remained as such until being withdrawn from service in 1981 and scrapped in 1982.

Construction and career

Pevensey Castle, named for the castle in Pevensey, was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast, and launched on 11 January 1944. The ship was commissioned in June 1944.

World War II

In World War II, as part of 30th Escort Group under the command of Denys Rayner, Pevensey Castle shared in the sinking of the German submarine U-1200[2] south of Ireland on 11 November 1944, along with sister ships Launceston Castle, Portchester Castle and Kenilworth Castle.

Weather ship

In 1960/61 she was converted at Blyth to the weather ship Weather Monitor. She was upgraded at the Manchester Dry Docks Company in 1976 and renamed Admiral Beaufort

Fate

She was withdrawn from service in 1981 and scrapped at Troon in 1982.

References

1. McCluskie, Tom (2013). The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff. Stroud: The History Press. p. 154. ISBN 9780752488615.
2. U-1200 at uboat.net

Publications

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.

External links

• Pevensey Castle at weatherships.co.uk