HMS Berkeley Castle (K387) HMS Berkeley Castle (K387) HMS "Berkeley Castle" was a Castle-class corvette of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. She was named after Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire. The Castle-class corvettes were an improved and enlarged derivative of the earlier Flower-class corvettes, which was intended to be built by shipyards that could not build the larger and more capable frigates. The greater length of the Castles gave made them better seaboats than the Flowers, which were not originally designed for ocean escort work. Large numbers (96 in total) were ordered in late 1942 and early 1943 from shipyards in the United Kingdom and
Lordship and Barony of Hailes The "caput baronium" (or simply "caput") of the Lordship and Barony of Hailes is Hailes Castle. Holders of the barony in heritage from Patrick de Dunbar, 9th Earl of March, who held it on behalf of the Crown: On 20 Dec 1451, James II, King of Scots, granted the Lordship and Barony of Hailes to Sir Patrick Hepburn, thereby converting the Barony that had been held in heritage from the Earl of March into a Lordship and Barony granted by the King. Lordship and Barony of Hailes The Lordship and Barony of Hailes is a Scottish feudal lordship (a feudal