HMS Hurst Castle (K416) 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

A corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft or fast attack craft , although many recent designs resemble frigates in size and role...

 of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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. She was named after Hurst Castle

Hurst Castle

Hurst Castle on the south coast of England is one of Henry VIII's Device Forts, built at the end of a long shingle barrier beach at the west end of the Solent to guard the approaches to Southampton. Hurst Castle was sited at the narrow entrance to the Solent where the ebb and flow of the tides...

 at the western end of the Solent

Solent

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 in Southern England

England

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.

Built by the Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company

Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company

The Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Limited was a British shipbuilding company based in Dundee on the east coast of Scotland.-History:...

 in Dundee

Dundee

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 and launched on 23 February 1944, she served as a convoy

Convoy

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 escort during the Second World War. She was sunk by the German

Germany

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 submarine

Submarine

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 U-482

German submarine U-482

German submarine U-482 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down on 13 February 1942 at Deutsche Werke in Kiel and went into service on 1 December 1943 under the command of Hartmut von Matuschka....

 on 1 September 1944 northwest of Ireland

Ireland

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 whilst part of the escort for convoy CU-36. The submarine fired a single T-5 "Gnat" acoustic homing torpedo

G7es torpedo

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. 16 of the ship's company were killed, the youngest being only 16 years of age (Donald Bennett).

Only one other Castle class corvette was sunk by U-boats, HMS Denbigh Castle

HMS Denbigh Castle (K696)

HMS Denbigh Castle was a Castle-class corvette of the United Kingdom'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....

on 13 February 1945.

As of January 2007, there were still 5 living crew members living around the UK.
The wreck is the HMS Hurst Castle now lies in 85 metres,and was dived first by diver Barry McGill onboard MV Rosguill on the 23 October 2011.
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