HMS Oxford Castle (K692)
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
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HMS Oxford Castle (K692) was a Castle-class corvette, of United Kingdom's Royal Navy.
She was named after Oxford Castle in England.
She was built at Harland and Wolff in Northern Ireland and launched on 11 December 1943.
She survived the Second World War and was scrapped at Briton Ferry in September 1960.
The Castle-class corvettes were an updated version of the much more numerous Flower-class corvettes of the Royal Navy, and started appearing during late 1943.
They were equipped with radar as well as asdic.
