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
National Register of Historic Places listings in Berkeley County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places listings in Berkeley County, South Carolina This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Berkeley County, South Carolina. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. There are 26 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 5 National Historic Landmarks. Another 2