HMS RUSHEN CASTLE (K372)

'HMS ''Rushen Castle'' (K372)' was a Castle-class corvette of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. She was named after Castle Rushen in Castletown, Isle of Man.
Built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, she was launched on 16 July 1943 and finished on 23 February 1944 - she served as a convoy escort during the Second World War. She was transferred to the British Air Ministry on 26 September 1960 for use as a weather ship, and was commissioned OWS ''Weather Surveyor'' on 21 December 1961. She was sold on 15 July 1977 and converted to a salvage vessel. She was scrapped at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht in the Netherlands in 1983.
The wartime commanding officer, R. C. Warwick, RNR, published a book, ''Really Not Required'', detailing his wartime experience on this ship and his previous command, the anti-submarine trawler HMS ''Saint Loman''.