| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Castle |
| Pennant | K 389 |
| Built by | Blyth Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Ltd. (Blyth, U.K.) : White |
| Ordered | 19 Jan 1943 |
| Laid down | 22 Apr 1943 |
| Launched | 28 Sep 1943 |
| Commissioned | 5 Apr 1944 |
| End service | |
| History | Scrapped at Port Glasgow on 16 March 1956. |
Commands listed for HMS Knaresborough Castle (K 389)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Lt. James Robert Freeman, RNR | 5 Nov 1943 | 9 Oct 1944 |
| 2 | T/A/Lt.Cdr. John Frederick Marchant, RNR | 9 Oct 1944 | early 1946 |
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Notable events involving Knaresborough Castle include:
7 Apr 1944
Voracious (Lt. F.D.G. Challis, DSC, RN) departed Blyth for Holy Loch. She was escorted by the brand new corvette HMS Knaresborough Castle (Lt. J.R. Freeman, RNR). (1)
19 Apr 1944
HMS United (Lt. N.R. Wood, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Tobermory together with HMS Lapwing (Cdr.(Retd.) E.C. Hulton, RN), HMS Monnow (Cdr. E.G. Skinner, DSC, RD, RCNR) and HMS Knaresborough Castle (Lt. J.R. Freeman, RNR). (2)
20 Apr 1944
HMS United (Lt. N.R. Wood, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Tobermory together with HMS Knaresborough Castle (Lt. J.R. Freeman, RNR), HMS Monnow (Cdr. E.G. Skinner, DSC, RD, RCNR), HMCS Teme (T/Lt.Cdr. D.G. Jeffrey, DSO, RCNR) and HMS Lapwing (Cdr.(Retd.) E.C. Hulton, RN). (2)
26 Feb 1945
HMS Unruly (T/Lt. D.J. Palmer, RNVR) conducted A/S exercises off Tobermory with HMS Sealyham, HMS Thirlmere (T/Lt. H.O. Olsen, RNR), HMS Knaresborough Castle (T/A/Lt.Cdr. J.F. Marchant, RNR) and HMS Seychelles (A/Lt.Cdr. R.E. Baldwin-Wiseman, RD, RNR). (3)
27 Feb 1945
HMS Unruly (T/Lt. D.J. Palmer, RNVR) conducted A/S exercises off Tobermory with HMS Knaresborough Castle (T/A/Lt.Cdr. J.F. Marchant, RNR), HMS Seychelles (A/Lt.Cdr. R.E. Baldwin-Wiseman, RD, RNR), HMS Jasper (Lt. J.N. Kempton, RN) and HMS Sealyham. (3)
3 Mar 1945
HMS Malaya (Capt. J. Hughes-Hallett, DSO, RN) departed the Clyde area for Plymouth. She was escorted by HMS Escapade (Lt.Cdr. H.R.A. Kidston, RN), HMS Inman (T/A/Lt.Cdr. H.E. Petre, RNR) and HMS Knaresborough Castle (T/A/Lt.Cdr. J.F. Marchant, RNR).
At 0215/3, the escort was reinforced by HMS Geranium (T/Lt. C. Blackshaw, RNVR).
At 1220/3, HMS Geranium was detached.
At 1315/3, 'Force 26' joined the escort, it was made up of HMS Faulknor (Cdr. Douglas Eric Holland-Martin, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN), HMS Bulldog (?), HMCS Iroquois (Capt. K.F. Adams, RCN) and HMCS Haida (A/Lt.Cdr. R.P. Welland, DSC, RCN).
HMS Malaya arrived at Plymouth around 0830/4. (4)
Sources
- ADM 173/19433
- ADM 173/19218
- ADM 173/20142
- ADM 53/119849
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.