HMS Rising Castle
HMS Rising Castle was a built for the Royal Navy in World War II. She was named for Castle Rising in Norfolk, England. Before she was commissioned she was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and renamed Arnprior and given a new pennant number. After the war she was sold to Uruguay and renamed Montevideo. Design The Castle-class corvettes were an improvement over the previous for use as a convoy escort, due to their improved seagoing performance. The corvettes displaced with a length of , a beam of and a draught of . The ships were powered by two Admiralty 3-drum type water-tube boilers creating . This powered one 4-cylinder triple-expansion engine, driving one shaft, giving the Castle-class corvettes a maximum speed of . The corvettes could carry 480 tons of oil giving them a range of at . The class was armed with one 4-inch (102-mm) Quick Firing Mk.XIX High Angle/Low Angle combined air/surface gun, two twin 20 mm anti-aircraft cannons and six single 20 mm anti-aircraft cannons for air/surface combat. For anti-submarine warfare, the ships were equipped with one Squid anti-submarine mortar and one depth charge rail with 15 depth charges. Construction and career Rising Castle was ordered