HMS Caistor Castle (K690)

HMS "Caistor Castle" (K690) was a Castle-class corvette of Britain's Royal Navy. She was named after Caistor Castle in Lincolnshire.

She was laid down at J. Lewis & Sons Ltd. in Aberdeen, Scotland on 28 August 1943 and launched on 22 May 1944 before being commissioned on 29 September 1944 and served as a convoy escort until the end of the Second World War.

After the war, she was in reserve at Devonport from 1947 until 1948. She represented the Reserve Fleet at the 1953 Coronation Review. She served in the Second Training Squadron at Portland from February 1953 until 1955. She was placed in reserve at Devonport after this until she was scrapped at Troon in 1956.

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