Welcome to my weblog for HMS Rushen Castle, a corvette in the Royal Navy from 1944 converted to a new role as a weather ship in 1960/1 and re-named OWS Weather Surveyor.
This site has been set up to uncover as much information as possible about this ship and her life (which spanned 40 years), first as an anti-submarine frigate in the Royal Navy, then as an ocean weather ship and finally, all too briefly, as a salvage vessel before she was broken up in 1982/3.
Photographs of and stories about the ship and its crews can be accessed by clicking on the links to the left (in particular you may find the "Index" helpful for locating written articles) - alternatively you can click directly on the more recent articles below. If you are looking for something specific (eg mention of a crew member or another ship), you will find the site search engine, top right, is straightforward and effective.
If you have any information, regardless of vintage, then please do contact me (click on my name beneath an article heading and select "Send Email") - any information given will be fully acknowledged and gratefully received. Also feel free to let me have your comments on any of the articles - there is no need to log in or provide contact information to do so. This site is not commercially motivated ... it is merely a corner of cyberspace which I hope will interest those who served on the ship, or ships like her, and their relatives.
I hope you enjoy the site and look forward to hearing from you in 2008! 
