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:For the automobile, see Chevrolet Corvette.A corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, smaller than a frigate.
When referring to sailing ships, a corvette is a sloop-of-war.
Almost all modern navies use ships smaller than frigates for coastal duty, but not all of them use the term corvette. During World War II most Allied navies had corvettes. The Flower Class were usually Royal Navy vessels although a number were provided by the United Kingdom but manned by sailors from countries that had been occupied by Hitler's forces, while the Royal Canadian Navy named theirs after Canadian cities and towns. Their chief duty was to protect convoys in the North Atlantic and on the route to MurmanskMurmansk is a city in the extreme northwest of Russia with a seaport on the Kola Gulf, 20 miles from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland. It has 308 100 inhabitants (2004) and i, USSR.
Later in WWII the Royal Navy introduced the Castle Class, some of which remained in service until the mid-1950s.
1 External links
- battleships-cruisers.co.uk - lists of ships, historic info, pictures...
2 Further reading
- Three Corvettes by Nicholas MonsarratNicholas Monsarrat ( 1910 1979) was the working name of Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat, a UK novelist best known today for his sea stories, particularly The Cruel Sea ( 1951). Life Born in Liverpool, Monsarrat attended Cambridge University with the intent recounts the writer's World War II experiences on corvettes, starting as an inexperienced small-boat sailor and ending as captain.
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