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Encyclopedia: HMS Barnard Castle (K594) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Empire Shelter was a ship originally laid down as the Castle-class corvette HMS Barnard Castle of the Royal Navy (pennant number K694), but converted to a convoy rescue ship before completion. |
 | | She was launched at Browns shipyard in Kincaid on 5 October 1944, brought into service in 1945 and scrapped in July 1955 at Burght in Belgium. |
 | | Barnard Castle overlooks a small town of the same name in County Durham, Northern Ireland. |
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