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HMS Denbigh Castle (K696)
HMS Denbigh Castle (K696) was a Castle-class corvette of Britain's Royal Navy.
She was built by J. Lewis & Sons Ltd in Aberdeen, Scotland, launched on 5 August 1944, and commissioned on 30 December 1944.
In World War II she served as a convoy escort. While escorting convoy JW-64 to Murmansk she was torpedoed by U-992 in the Barents Sea on 13 February 1945. She was towed by Bluebell to the Kola Inlet , but she capsized and was written off as a total loss.
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