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HMS Portchester Castle was a Castle-class corvette launched on 21 June 1943 at Swan Hunter shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne. She was the only RN ship to be named after Portchester Castle in Hampshire.

As one of 4 ships in 30th Escort Group under the command of Denys Rayner, Portchester Castle shared in the sinking of U-1200 south of Ireland on 11 November 1944, along with her sister ships Launceston Castle, Pevensey Castle and Kenilworth Castle.

In 1951 Portchester Castle was employed to represent the fictitious HMS Saltash Castle in the film The Cruel Sea, in which she is shown wearing the pennant number F362, rather than her own K362. In 1955 the ship was also seen in the film The Man Who Never Was.

This resin and mult-media kit (No. K 3580 is available for pre-order now at the WEM website. No price is given yet and WEM states a proforma at the correct price will be e-mailed to those who pre-ordered when the item is released. There is no compulsion to accept the proforma.