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  1. Corvette - Wikipedia

    • The modern corvette appeared during World War II as an easily-built patrol and convoy escort vessel. The British naval designer William Reed drew up a small ship based on the single-shaft Smiths Dock Company whale catcher Southern Pride, whose simple design and mercantile construction standards lent itself to rapid production in large numbers in small yards … See more

    Overview

    A corvette is a small warship. It is traditionally the smallest class of vessel considered to be a proper (or "rated") … See more

    Sailing vessels

    During the Age of Sail, corvettes were one of many types of warships smaller than a frigate and with a single deck of guns. They were very closely related to sloops-of-war. The role of the corvette consisted mostly of coastal patr… See more

    Steam ships

    Ships during the steam era became much faster and more manoeuvrable than their sail ancestors. Corvettes during this era were typically used alongside gunboats during colonial missions. Battleships and other large … See more

    Modern corvettes

    Modern navies began a trend in the late 20th and early 21st centuries of building corvettes geared towards smaller more manoeuvrable surface capability. These corvettes have displacements between 550 and 3,310 s… See more

    Current operators

    • Algerian National Navy operates three Adhafer-class corvettes, four Djebel Chenoua-class corvettes.
    • Argentine Navy operates six Espora-class corvettes
    • Royal Bahrain Naval Force operates two Al-Manama-cl… See more

    Future development

    • Algerian National Navy will receive three Steregushchiy-class corvettes from Russia and six Jiangdao-class corvettes from China.
    • Angolan Navy will receive three Baynunah-class corvettes from the United Arab Emira… See more

    Museum ships

    • Chilean corvette Esmeralda (Replica), 1854, in Iquique, Chile
    • ARA Uruguay, 1874 steam and sail barque, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • HMAS Castlemaine, 1941 Bathurst-class corvette, Williamstown, Victoria, Au… See more

     
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  1. Corvettes were small, lightly armed Canadian-built warships used for anti-submarine warfare in the Second World War. With the threat by German U-Boats to convoys on the North Atlantic from the outset of the war, Canada needed to produce ships quickly. The answer was the corvette, a vessel of barely 1,000 tonnes and about 63m long.
    www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/corvette
    Corvettes disappeared as a class after the shift to steam power in the mid-19th century, but during World War II the Royal Navy applied the term to small antisubmarine vessels escorting convoys in the Atlantic.
    www.britannica.com/technology/corvette-warship
    The corvette was born out of dire need at the beginning of World War Two for something to fill the gap until the larger destroyers could be brought on line. The design used was an untested one based on a whaling ship. The corvettes could sail at 16 knots while the surfaced U-boats could manage 17-18 knots.
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  4. Flower-class corvette - Wikipedia

    151 rows · The Flower-class corvette [1] [2] [3] (also referred to as the …

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  6. Flower class Corvettes - Allied Warships of WWII

    Oct 6, 2017 · After the Normandy landings in 1944, the Flower-class gave way in the Atlantic to the newer and faster frigates and Castle-class corvettes. France was building 6 flower class corvettes when Germany invaded in 1940. Four of …

  7. Corvettes - Allied Warships of WWII - uboat.net

    44 rows · Feb 22, 2015 · Eventually roughly half of the escorts in the North Atlantic convoys were corvettes. The most famous class of corvettes was the Flower class which was a formidable U-boat hunter. The list is divided by …

  8. Flower class corvettes (1940) - Naval Encyclopedia

    Sep 12, 2022 · Historically significant for the contribition they made to the ultimate allied victory in WW2, they were cheap and relatively simple vessels inspired by a rugged whaler design, and could free already overtaxed Naval Yards in Great …

  9. Flower-class Corvette | World War II Database - WW2DB

    By the closing months of World War II the Flower-class corvettes had been improved as much as they could be. But even with up to six 20-millimeter mountings, they were relegated to the sidelines by the new emergency-built …

  10. Flower-Class Corvettes – The Workhorse Of WW2

    Aug 31, 2023 · The Flower-class corvettes were a series of naval escort vessels built during World War II to protect Allied convoys from German U-boat threats in the Atlantic.

  11. Canadian Corvettes in the Second World War – A …

    Jun 24, 2023 · Corvettes already had gained a reputation that they “would roll on wet grass” but the dramatic change of role quickly brought home the fact that the short fo’c’sle (forecastle) with a well-deck opening ahead of the bridge made …

  12. American Flower-class corvette - Wikipedia

  13. List of corvettes of World War II | Military Wiki | Fandom

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