Laid down in Crowns shipyard, England, 2nd November 1943. Completed and delivered to
the R.N. May 12th 1945 as antisubmarine frigate. Also prepared to assist convoy specially
on the Murmans route.
Loa 84 meter. Beam 13 meter. Depl. 1100-1580 fully loaded. Machinery: 1 4-cyl triple
expansion engine operating one single screw. Two oil-fired boilers. Speed 18 knots.
Armament: 1 4" HA (high angle) gun on foredeck. 2 20 mm. Oerlikon anti-air-craft on
bridge. 2 40 mm Bofors on special platform aft of funnel.1 "Squid" dept charge mortar in
front of bridge.  2 dept charge thruster (drums) on
2 dept charge thruster (drums) on quarter deck. Smokescreen drums inside stern.
At the beginning of WW II a lot of steam trawlers were enrolled in the R.N. Already in 1940
thr Admiralty presented plans for a new frigate, still with lines of the trawler. This became
the famous "Flower Class" and English shipyards delivered not less than 168 ships!
Anyhow the Flower was too small to be engaged in the Atlantic Convoys. This type of
frigate had to be bigger and more seaworthy and one of the new ones was the Castle
class frigate. Totally the shipyards in England, Australia, Canada and USA produced not
less than 458 ships during the war!
After WW II some of the frigates were sold to foreign countries, broken down and some
ships sailed as "Weather ships" in the North- and South Atlantic.
The models hull was produced in England by Metcalf Mouldings.