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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 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.
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. In US service they were classified as ...
The novel The Cruel Sea (1951), also by Nicholas Monsarrat, about the life and death of a Flower-class corvette and the men in her, is regarded as one of the classic naval stories of World War II. James B. Lamb's two books, The Corvette Navy and On the Triangle Run, give an autobiographical and historical perspective of life on Royal Canadian ...
World War II corvettes of the United Kingdom (2 C, 7 P) Pages in category "World War II corvettes" This category contains only the following page.
2 × 450 mm torpedo tubes 10 × depth charge throwers The Gabbiano -class corvettes were a group of 59 vessels built for the Regia Marina of Italy for service during the Second World War .
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):
The Bathurst-class corvettes were a class of general purpose vessels designed and built in Australia during World War II. Originally classified as minesweepers , but widely referred to as corvettes , the Bathurst -class vessels fulfilled a broad anti-submarine , anti-mine , and convoy escort role.