| Name: | RUSHEN CASTLE |
| Type: | Patrol Frigate |
| Keel: | 18/04/1943 |
| Launched: | 16/07/1943 |
| Completed: | 24/02/1944 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 1780 |
| Dimensions: | 1010disp - 1510disp, 225.0 x 36.7 x 17.8ft |
| Engines: | T4cyl (18.5, 31 & 38.5, 38.5 x 30ins), 2880ihp |
| Engines by: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 16.5knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 1 x 4.0ins AA, 2 x 2 x 20mm AA, 6 x 1 x 20mm AA guns; |
| 1 x 3 x Squid anti-submarine mortars; depth charges | |
| History: | |
| 24/02/1944 | British Royal Navy |
| 26/09/1960 | British Air Ministry |
| 21/12/1961 | Renamed WEATHER SURVEYOR |
| 15/07/1977 | JH Pounds, Portsmouth |
| 1982 | Broken up |
| Comments: | A member of the Castle Class of Frigates also known as Corvettes |
| 26/09/1960: Transferred to the Air Ministry for use as a weather ship | |
| 1961: Converted at Blyth Drydock and Shipbuilding Co Ltd | |
| 21/12/1961: Commissioned as WEATHER SURVEYOR | |
| 15/07/1977: Sold for use as a salvage vessel | |
| 4Q/1982: Broken up at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht by Arie Rijsdijk - Boss En Zonen |
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