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The Flower-class corvette [1] [2] [3] (also referred to as the Gladiolus class after the lead ship) [4] was a British class of 294 corvettes used during World War II by the Allied navies particularly as anti-submarine convoy escorts in the Battle of the Atlantic. Royal Navy ships of this class were named after flowers.
This is a list of corvettes of World War II. [1] [2] [3] [4]The List of ships of World War II contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. . The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop ...
The American Flower-class corvettes were those ships of the Royal Navy's Flower class built for, or operated by, the United States Navy during World War II. These were ten ships of the original Flower class, known as the Temptress class in US service, and fifteen Modified Flowers, as the Action class .
United States Navy decommissioned all its Flower-class corvettes in 1945 following World War II. National Navy of Uruguay decommissioned its lone Castle-class corvette in 1975. Bolivarian Navy of Venezuela decommissioned its last Flower-class corvette in 1962. Yugoslav Navy returned its lone Flower-class corvette to the United Kingdom in 1949.
After more than half a century, the category of corvette was revived during World War II to designate a smaller form of escort vessel than the existing sloops. It was thus not comparable with the pre-1887 corvettes in the Royal Navy. Two classes of wartime corvette were designed and built in considerable numbers (see separate articles):
HMNZS Arabis (K385) This is a list of Flower-class corvettes and Modified Flower-class corvettes. It should be stressed that all ships were initially built for the British, Canadian, French and American navies, so that all mentions of other nations' navies refer to ships which were transferred to those countries later in their lives.
Stained-glass window listing the names of the Bathurst-class corvettes serving in the RAN during World War II. A monument to the 56 Australian-operated corvettes is located at the Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre, at Garden Island, Sydney. The monument, Corvettes, was unveiled by Rear Admiral Peter Sinclair on 12 November 1995. [57]
The Castle-class corvette was an ocean going convoy escort developed by the United Kingdom during the Second World War. It was the follow-on to the Flower-class corvette, and designed to be built in shipyards that were producing the Flowers. The Castle-class was a general improvement over the smaller Flowers which were designed for coastal ...