HMS Hedingham Castle was a of the Royal Navy named after Hedingham Castle in Essex. She was originally to have been called Gorey Castle (after Mont Orgueil in Jersey). She was launched at John Crown & Sons Ltd in Sunderland on 30 October 1944. In World War II she served as a convoy escort. In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and was broken up at Granton in April 1958. Another Castle-class corvette was originally to have been called Hedingham Castle but she was reallocated to the Royal Canadian Navy before launching and renamed . She plays in the film Seagulls Over Sorrento (also called Crest of the Wave) (Roy Boulting – 1954). References Publications Castle-class corvettes 1944 ships