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	The Flower Class Corvette Pt.1
		The two largest operators of the Flower Class corvette were the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy.
		Not all corvettes used the WA colours, and HMS Spirea is a perfect example of this.
		They retained 'Flower' names rather than the city and town names given to RCN Flowers (the RCN wanted to call them Town Class, but that was taken by the 50 four-stack destroyers lent to the RN/RCN by the USN in return for bases).
	www.internetmodeler.com /2001/february/galleria/Flowers.htm (927 words)

	Flower class corvette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Construction of Flower-class corvettes was superseded toward the end of the war; larger shipyards concentrated on River-class frigates and smaller yards on the improved Castle class corvettes.
		Albans and the corvette HMS Hydrangea on 1941-08-03
		Catharines, and the corvettes HMCS Fennel, HMCS Chilliwack, and HMS Kenilworth Castle on 1944-03-06
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flower_class_corvette (3003 words)

	Ships in Bottles, Flower Class corvette, HMS Gentian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Gentian: A flower of the genus Gentiana, fam.
		Corvettes, while small, had a crew of 90 - 160 men and they were quite compartmentalized with enlisted men berthed (in swaying hammocks just as in Nelson's time) in the stuffy, always wet forecastle or, in the stern.
		Flower Class Corvette website While mainly for modellers, this site has a listing of books and some photos- particularly of Post-war corvettes and snaps of life aboard a Free French WWII Corvette which is really quite representative of life aboard the class.
	seafarer.netfirms.com /2/gentian.htm (1437 words)

	Flower Class Corvettes
		Revell 1/72 Flower: HMCS Agassiz by George Peat
		Revell 1/72 Flower: SS Sudbury by George Peat
		Ensign 3: Flower Class Corvettes: Preston, Antony and Raven, Alan
	www.cbrnp.com /RNP/Flower/contents.htm (263 words)

	Bunch of Flowers1
		The Flower Class corvette kit is not one for the beginner due to the small size of the subject and the number of fiddly parts.
		The etch brass set accompanying the corvette kits has sufficient parts to enable a great deal of detailing but again it is important to check and only the photographs reveal which items were on a ship at a particular date.
		Most corvettes appeared not to have the lower crosstree that is depicted in the drawings in the instruction sheet.
	whiteensignmodels.com /brochure/bunch_of_flowers1.htm (2514 words)

	Flower Class Corvette
		The Flower for many is as much a symbol of British endurance and defiance as the Spitfire, but the Spitfire was a thoroughbred, the Flower was a junkyard dog.
		There were no fundamental changes to the Flower in the course of the war, the armament was increased, notably a single Pom Pom was fitted, 70 depth charges were carried once the mine sweeping gear was removed and the throwers were increased to four.
		Immortalised in "The Cruel Sea" the Flower Class Corvette shepherded convoys in the deadly western Atlantic at the height of the Battle against the U-Boats.
	www.middle-watch.co.uk /Flower.htm (546 words)

	FLOWER CLASS CORVETTES
		At the moment she seems far from doomed: she is new, untried, lying in a river that lacks the tang of salt water, waiting for the men to man her.
		She is a corvette, a new type of escort ship, an experiment designed to meet a desperate situation still over the horizon.
		The Flower class corvettes were in the thick of the Battle of the Atlantic from beginning to end, with 33 being lost.
	www.rjerrard.co.uk /royalnavy/flower/flower.htm (833 words)

	Flower Class Corvette pt 5: 4" Mk.IX & XIX Guns
		Using the drawings in John Lambert's Flower Class Corvettes book, I drew the shapes of the top, sides and front of the gunshield on.020 sheet styrene.
		After these were cut out using a steel edge and a new #11 Exacto blade I embossed a line of rivets on the side of the shield by pressing a push-pin on the inside of the shield at the height were the reinforcing angle iron was to go.
		One reason I wanted to do an RCN Flower is the artwork carried on the forward gunshield, and HMCS Wetaskiwin has some of the coolest artwork around on hers.
	www.internetmodeler.com /2002/january/ships/Flower_4inch.htm (1651 words)

	Corvette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Most corvettes and sloops of the 17th century were around 40 to 60 feet (12 to 18 meters) in length and weighed 40 to 70 tons (36 to 64 metric tonnes).
		Corvettes slowly increased in size and capability, until 1800 when they reached lengths over 100 feet (30 meters) and weight ranging from 400 to 600 tons (circa 365 to 544 metric tonnes).
		The corvette was not however an ideal design for an anti-submarine escort; they were really too short for open ocean work, too lightly armed, little faster than the merchantmen they escorted (especially with respect to faster German U-boat designs then emerging) and their single shaft meant that they were not particularly manouverable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Corvette (1261 words)

	S3 - Flower Class Corvette
		Escort ships of the Flower Class were derived from the collaboration of the British Admiralty and the Smiths Dock Company, which in 1938 had a successful design for a commercial whaler called the Southern Pride.
		Sixty Flower Class corvettes had been ordered before war broke out and by the end of 1940 a total of 141 of the original design had been ordered.
		Once it had been decided that corvettes were no longer to be used as coastal escort ships, but on high seas, some modifications had to be made.
	www.miniatures.de /html/esp/flower-class-corvette.html (199 words)

	Flower Corvettes in WWII
		The Corvettes were built in the UK and in Canada, generally in smaller yards that were not already engaged in war production.
		The early ships were all named after flowers or flowering plants, hence the term “Flower Class”.
		Corvettes were built in a number of different yards, with a variety of weapons fits.
	modelingmadness.com /others/books/michaelscorvettebook.htm (519 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Flower class Corvettes
		145 of these Flower-class corvettes were eventually built in the UK and they, led by a few non-fleet destroyers, formed the bulk of the escorting warships which fought the battle of the Atlantic.
		The torpedoing of a corvette itself would be especially dramatic: its few compartments below the water line would cause it to sink in seconds, with few survivors.
		France was building 6 flower class corvettes when Germany invaded in 1940.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/class.html?ID=42&navy=HMCS (599 words)

	ModelWarships review
		Flower Class corvettes were the true workhorses of the Allied navies in the Battle of the Atlantic.
		They herded convoys critical to the war effort back and forth across the Atlantic and filled in the gap for escorts until larger and faster ships, like frigates and escort destroyers, were built to conduct these duties.
		The first Flowers had short foc'sles, but they were extended far aft to provide extra crew accommodations and to improve seaworthiness starting with the 51st vessel built.
	www.modelwarships.com /reviews/ships/fr/flower-e/400-la/eflower.htm (799 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - Memories of Flower Class Corvettes
		The particular firm that was approached to produce a plan for a Corvette was also involved in building warships in the First World War, so it was decided by the Royal Naval establishment to call them flowers.
		This ship was entirely different to the Flower Class Corvette; a long ship with all the tanks ahead of you, the bridge at the end.
		It was only through the Flower Class Corvette Association, of which I am a member that we heard about this.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/75/a5203775.shtml (3035 words)

	Anova Books - The Flower Class Corvette Agassiz — New Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Flower class corvette was one of the most famous and numerous of all escort vessels, and the corvette Agassiz is the most representative of the Canadian Flowers, which were thrown into the thick of the bitter Atlantic convoy battles of 1941—2.
		Derived from a whalecatcher hull design, and intended as a cheap coastal escort that could be built by non-specialist yards, the Flowers were the only class available in large numbers when the submarine war flared up in earnest in 1941.
		As a result they were used on rigorous ocean convoy duties for which they were barely adequate, and their crews suffered greatly in one of the harshest arenas of the second world war.
	www.chrysalisbooks.co.uk /book/0851779751 (282 words)

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		The Flower class Corvette was designed so that merchant shipyards that where not ordinarily utilized for wartime production would be used to produce them.
		The Flower Class Corvette was used in every theater of the War but is mainly remembered as a workhorse in the Battle of the Atlantic.
		The kit I am using is the 1/72nd scale Flower Class Corvette by Revell and my main point of reference is the book by Warship Perspectives, Flower Class Corvettes in World War 2 by John Lambert.
	www.modelwarships.com /features/current/flower/flower.htm (3327 words)

	Flower (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Flower, in ancient chemistry, is the powdery form of any substance, especially as the result of condensation after sublimation.
		Flower is also a song by Tomiko Van.
		Flowers is also an album by Echo and the Bunnymen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flower_(disambiguation) (149 words)

	Radio Research Paper - Corvette Radio Fits
		Volumes of information have been written about Canada's Corvettes and are available elsewhere so the focus of this document will be the radio fits of this class.
		Sackville is the only survivor of her class and the main reason for that was her quiet steam engine which was a desired characteristic when she was converted to an oceanographic research ship.
		The late Albert Yonge of Halifax provided a sketch of Sackville's radio office Corvettes only had one radio office and there were wide variations in the equipment fits.
	www.jproc.ca /rrp/corvette.html (381 words)

	The Great Little Ships Range Main Page
		His book on Corvettes has just been published but for the serious modeller there is no substitute for working from his superb large format plans - these are sold directly by John himself.
		Following requests from many of you, we are releasing this new set with a superb fully-detailed cast corvette propeller together with a resin rudder unit of correct shape and scale thickness.
		A set of port and starboard rails that were fitted to the sides of the 4" gun shields on many corvettes later in the war.
	home.clara.net /djparkins/gls/glsmain.htm (2884 words)

	Flower Class Corvette HMCS Sackville
		During periodic refits she was altered -as were all corvettes- in an attempt to make her both more habitable and a more capable anti-submarine escort.
		She is the only surviving Flower Class Corvette anywhere in the world and is on display at Halifax, Nova Scotia May through October.
		Modelers should be aware that she is Canadian construction, hence the pom-pom tub is further aft than on UK constructed vessels, and her deckhouse extends further aft.
	www.steelnavy.com /Sackville.htm (603 words)

	Historic Naval Ships Visitors Guide - HMCS Sackville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Of the 236 corvettes that were laid down in Canada and Britain, 111 sailed from Canadian slips.
		Laid up in reserve, the corvette was reactivated in 1952 and spent the next 30 years engaged in oceanographic, hydrographic, and fisheries research.
		Retired from the Royal Canadian Navy in 1982, Sackville was transferred to the Canadian Naval Corvette Trust and restored to her 1944 appearance.
	www.maritime.org /hnsa-sackville.htm (222 words)

	In memory of HMS Picotee - K63. Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The PICOTEE was a "Flower" class corvette completed on September 5th 1940 at Harland and Wolf and was employed on convoy escort duty in the North Atlantic.
		Allocated to the 4th Escort Group and based on Greenock, she left port on the morning of 7th August 1941 to join part of convoy ONS.4 at sea, proceeding to Iceland.
		They were convinced that the corvette had not been torpedoed and that the explosion had occurred on board the ship itself.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /alan.farrow1/picotee/The_loss.html (674 words)

	FLOWER Class
		This was fixed with the Hedgehog ASW mortar, added to most ships later in the war, which allowed the ship to stand off while firing the mortar bombs and retain sonar contact with the sub.
		Few corvettes saw service in Canada after the war, although HMCS SUDBURY was sold and converted into a salvage tug.
		She is shown towards the end of the war, with the Type 271 radar and the fo'c's'le extension.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/canada/ww2/flower (602 words)

	HMS Celandine, Flower Class Corvette
		The corvettes were built mostly in British dockyards in 1940 and 1941.
		HMS Celandine a Flower Class Corvette, Launched 28th December 1940,n Displacement 925 tons, and a crew of 85, top speed of 16 knots.
		HMS Celandine flower class corvette escorting Atlantic convoy in the middle distance the carrier HMS Biter is shown.
	www.naval-art.com /hms_celandine.htm (692 words)

	(Unsaved Publication) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A variation on the well known flower class hull.
		All the details of the normal Flower class, i,e, plating, port detail, and the quarter deck bulwarks are part of the moulding.
		Lots of plans and info on this class of ship, or for a blow by blow account of the conversion, read Mr M Bonds article in Marine modelling magazine, August 1990 for full details of this version which is based on H.M.S. Gardenia from Macgregor plans.
	www.deansmarine.co.uk /mpage/Products/flowerclass.html (87 words)

	flower
		The Matchbox/Revell 1/72 Flower Class kit is lacking in detail, but it is a competent R/C sailor and has been the introduction into R/C boating for many people.
		Flower Class corvettes were known to be lively ships, and careful placement of ballast will help mimic the action of the real ship.
		You want the model to pitch and roll, yet be sufficiently stable that it won't turn over in a collision.
	members.shaw.ca /modelflags/tips/flower.html (1958 words)

	Revised FLOWER Class
		These were the first corvettes laid-down with the extended fo'c's'le (as per the line drawing in the header).
		They were also built including other improvements, such as better sonar and radar from the outset, Hedgehog and greater depth charge storage, and improved boilers which in some allowed for greater range.
		Few corvettes saw service with the RCN postwar, although many were sold to foreign Navies and commercial interests.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/canada/ww2/revflowr (230 words)

	USS Alacrity
		The Alacrity (PG-87) was a British Flower Class corvette initially laid down as HMS Cornel (K 278) by the Collingwood Shipyard, Ltd., Collingwood, Ontario, Canada.
		The waves, measured at over 40 feet, swept down the stack and extinguished the corvette's boilers but she survived unscathed and without any injuries among her crew.
		She was purchased in 1949 by the Italian ship owner Cameli on account of the Società Anonima Navigazione Toscana, along with number of other corvettes for use as passenger vessels.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/WEBCUTTERS/Alacrity_PG87.html (552 words)

	FLOWER CLASS CORVETTE – DETAIL SETS & REPLACEMENT FITTINGS For the Revell/Matchbox Long Forecastle Corvette Kit
		These additions are the extra etched detail included for the more limited number of depth charges in this set for all of the depth charge castings in our Flower Class Corvette Depth Charge Set (GLS-19).
		Many corvettes carried additional Lewis guns to the two supplied with our 2 Pdr.
		Fully detailed, Cast Brass, Corvette Propeller with Resin Rudder Unit of correct shape and scale thickness.
	www.loyalhannadockyard.com /GLSFCC.htm (1350 words)

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