HMS Allington Castle was a Castle-class corvette of Britain's Royal Navy. She was named after Allington Castle in Kent.
She was launched by Fleming and Ferguson Shipyard at Paisley, Scotland on 29 February 1944 as Alington Castle. Her name was changed in June 1944 whilst she was completing to Allington Castle. She was commissioned on 19 June 1944 and served as a convoy escort until the end of the Second World War.
After the war, she remained in the Home Fleet based at Fleetwood until 1947 when she moved to the Harwich Reserve. Refitted on the Tyne in August 1949 she returned to the Harwich Reserve until 1952 when she was transferred to West Hartlepool where she remained until 1958. She was sold and arrived for scrapping at Sunderland on 20 December 1958.
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Castle-class corvettes
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| Royal Navy |
- Allington Castle
- Alnwick Castle
- Amberley Castle
- Bamborough Castle
- Barnard Castle
- Berkeley Castle
- Caistor Castle
- Carisbrooke Castle
- Denbigh Castle
- Dumbarton Castle
- Farnham Castle
- Flint Castle
- Guildford Castle
- Hedingham Castle (K491)
- Hedingham Castle (K529)
- Hadleigh Castle
- Hever Castle
- Hurst Castle
- Kenilworth Castle
- Knaresborough Castle
- Lancaster Castle
- Launceston Castle
- Leaside Castle
- Leeds Castle
- Maiden Castle
- Morpeth Castle
- Norham Castle
- Nunnery Castle
- Oakham Castle
- Oxford Castle
- Pembroke Castle
- Pevensey Castle
- Portchester Castle
- Rayleigh Castle
- Rising Castle
- Rushen Castle
- Sandgate Castle
- Scarborough Castle
- Sherborne Castle
- Shrewsbury Castle
- Tamworth Castle
- Tintagel Castle
- Walmer Castle
- Wolvesey Castle
- York Castle
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| Royal Canadian Navy |
- Arnprior
- Bowmanville
- Copper Cliff
- Hespeler
- Humberstone
- Huntsville
- Kincardine
- Leaside
- Orangeville
- Petrolia
- St. Thomas
- Tillsonburg
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| Royal Norwegian Navy |
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