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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.
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):
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 ...
Pages in category "World War II corvettes of the United Kingdom" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The result was a scaled-down version of the Loch for shipyards [9] that only built corvettes using mainly traditional methods. The design was approved in May 1943 [8] and 96 Castles were ordered from yards in the UK and Canada. Fifteen British and all 37 Canadian ships were later cancelled; [9] Canada receiving twelve British-built ships ...
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.
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.
HMS Bluebell was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy in World War II.Ordered from Fleming & Ferguson of Paisley, Scotland on 27 July 1939, she was launched on 24 April 1940 and commissioned in July 1940.