Put "HMS Rushen Castle" into search engines like Google or AltaVista and one comes up with pages of Encyclopaedia entries all having much the same to say on the subject (for example, Wikipedia), namely:

"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 and launched on 15 July 1943, 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 renamed Weather Surveyor. She was sold on 15 July 1977 and converted to a salvage vessel. She was scrapped in Germany in 1982.

"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."

Pretty dull, really.  Colin Warwick's book however is a useful lead as it is full of anecdotal bits and pieces about the ship and I'll touch upon these later in a number of articles.

The Probert Encyclopaedia takes a slightly different and somewhat impersonal tack:

"HMS Rushen Castle was a British Castle Class frigate of 1100 tons displacement launched in 1943. She carried a crew of 96, and had a top speed of 16.5 knots. Armaments consisted of one 4 inch calibre Mk XIX gun; two 40 mm anti-aircraft guns in a twin arrangement; two 20 mm guns in a twin arrangement; one squid three-barrelled anti-ship mortar; two depth charge launchers and fifteen depth charges."

But that's it ... and hence the reason I have started this weblog.