HMS Oxford Castle

HMS Oxford Castle was a Castle-class corvette, pennant number K692, 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.

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