HMS Denbigh Castle (K696) was a Castle-class

Castle class corvette

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...

 corvette

Corvette

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 of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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She was built by J. Lewis & Sons Ltd in Aberdeen

Aberdeen

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, Scotland

Scotland

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, launched on 5 August 1944, and commissioned on 30 December 1944.

In World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 she served as a convoy

Convoy

A convoy is a group of vehicles, typically motor vehicles or ships, traveling together for mutual support and protection. Often, a convoy is organized with armed defensive support, though it may also be used in a non-military sense, for example when driving through remote areas.-Age of Sail:Naval...

 escort. While escorting convoy JW-64 to Murmansk

Murmansk

Murmansk is a city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It serves as a seaport and is located in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland...

 she was torpedo

Torpedo

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ed by U-992 in the Barents Sea

Barents Sea

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 on 13 February 1945. She was towed by Bluebell

HMS Bluebell (K80)

HMS Bluebell was a that served in the Royal Navy during World War II. Ordered from Fleming & Ferguson at Paisley on 27 July 1939, she was launched on 24 April 1940 and commissioned in July 1940. She served in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Arctic, escorting several convoys to Russia, and also...

 to the Kola Inlet, but she capsized and was written off as a total loss.