HMS LEEDS CASTLE, Huskisson Dock, Liverpool, Merseyside - December 23, 2000
HMS Leeds Castle (P258) was a Castle-class patrol vessel built by Hall, Russell & Company of Aberdeen, Scotland for the Royal Navy.
She was launched in October 1980 and commissioned the following August. She was involved in the 1982 Falklands War, operating between the British territories of Ascension Island, South Georgia, and the Falkland Islands as a dispatch vessel commanded by Lieutenant-Commander Colin Hamilton.
The Leeds Castle spent much time performing fishery protection duties around the United Kingdom, as well as being used as a guard ship in the Falkland Islands. In 2000, Leeds Castle underwent an eight-month refit, returning to the fleet in early 2001.
In April 2010 Leeds Castle was sold to Bangladesh along with Dumbarton Castle.
The two ships were refitted at the A&P Group facility in Newcastle upon Tyne before being handed over. In 2010, Leeds Castle and Dumbarton Castle were renamed as the Dhaleshwari and Bijoy of the Bangladesh Navy respectively.