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
Frederick Augustus Berkeley, 5th Earl of Berkeley Berkeley Castle upon their eldest son, William Fitz Hardinge Berkeley, but William’s attempt to assume his father’s honours were disallowed by the House of Lords. It appears that Berkeley’s titles devolved as a matter of law upon his fifth son, Thomas Morton Fitzhardinge Berkeley (1796-1882), but were never used by him. Frederick Augustus Berkeley, 5th Earl of Berkeley Frederick Augustus Berkeley, 5th Earl of Berkeley (1745–1810) was a British nobleman. Berkeley was the eldest son and heir of Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley by Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Drax, of Ellerton Abbey, Yorkshire. He succeeded his father in the