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	French corvette Aconit: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Aconit (J1095, formerly HMS Aconite, K58) was one of the nine Flower-class (Flower-class: more facts about this subject) corvette (corvette: A highly maneuverable escort warship; smaller than a destroyer) s lent by the Royal Navy (Royal Navy: the royal navy of the united kingdom is the "senior service" of the armed services, being...
		Aconit took a very active part in the Second Battle of the Atlantic (Second Battle of the Atlantic: the second battle of the atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign of world...
		Three French warships have since been named Aconit in the honour of this unit, including the stealth frigate Aconit (Aconit: the aconit is a large multi-mission stealth frigate of the french marine nationa...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/french_corvette_aconit (704 words)

	Flower Class Corvette Encyclopedia Article @ GipsyPrincess.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Construction of Flower-class corvettes was superseded toward the end of the war; larger shipyards concentrated on River-class frigates and smaller yards on the improved Castle class corvettes.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
	www.gipsyprincess.com /encyclopedia/Flower_class_corvette (2305 words)

	Aconit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aconit is the name of five French warships, notably:
		French corvette Aconit, a corvette of the Second World War, from the Free French naval forces, recipient of the Ordre de la Libération
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aconit (105 words)

	uboat.net - Fighting the U-boats - Ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		At the beginning of the war the French Navy consisted of 7 battleships, 1 aircraft carrier, 18 cruisers, 72 destroyers, 78 submarines and a number of corvettes and other smaller vessels.
		Even the Free French navy was consisted by large number of surface and submarine vessels, they did not have impressive successes against U-boats.
		Worth to be mentioned also, is that the Free French Navy during WWII had the largest submarine in the world.
	uboat.net /allies/ships/french.htm (388 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		She was still in drydock when the Germans tried to seize the French fleet and was scuttled by her crew, a sad end to a splendid ship.
		The seaplane on the catapult is a Loire 130, the French equivalent to the British Walrus.
		She was the last and best French "treaty" cruiser, possibly the most outstanding design in that category in any navy, and certainly a most graceful ship.
	www.steelnavy.com /MuseedelaMarine.htm (1059 words)

	HMCS Oakville (K178) Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Flower class was a class of 267 corvettes developed by the Royal Navy specifically for the protection of shipping convoys during the Second Battle of the Atlantic in World War II.
		By the end of the Second Battle of the Atlantic, the RCN was the primary navy in the northwest sector of the Atlantic Ocean and was responsible for the safe escort of innumerable convoys and the destruction of many U-boats—an anti-submarine capability that the RCN would build upon during the post-war.
		While some units from the French army were still fighting, a number of top politicians and military leaders decided that it would be better to surrender given the situation; France signed an armistice with Germany on June 22 1940, leading to the establishment of the Vichy France puppet government in the unoccupied part of France.
	hmcs.oakville.k178.en.ogarnij.info (7295 words)

	French corvette Aconit: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Aconit took a very active part in the Second Battle of the Atlantic (The second battle of the atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign of world war ii, running from...)
		Aconit undertook repairs in Glasgow (Largest city in Scotland; a port in west central Scotland; one of the great shipbuilding centers of the world)
		Aconit spent the first months of 1944 in Casablanca (A port on the Atlantic and the largest city of Morocco)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/french_corvette_aconit (1294 words)

	Richelieu Class Battleship
		The 3 French battle ships were excellent, and the French frigates were very useful, but they were all still awaiting the delivery of the new Ritage-2 missile.
		Also coming up were an additional French battle ship, 2 Ukrainian frigates and a German Battlegroup but before any of this could arrive the Kafers entered human space and struck The battle which followed has to be the last "pure gun" battle in history.
		The French cruisers of DC-2 were first to contact the enemy as they were on patrol in the outer system when the enemy fleet entered it.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~dheb/2300/Equipment/SG/Richelieu/RichBB.htm (3806 words)

	L'Arsenal 1/400 Modified Flower Class Corvette
		Eventually 269 of these ships would be constructed by British and Canadian yards, with a further six in French yards, and they would be operated by most Allied navies...
		No two Flowers were identical, but generally the early Flowers had a short fo'c'sle, mast in front of the bridge, 4" gun on the bow, 2pdr aft and carried various machine guns and (later) 20mm cannon.
		The French company L'Arsenal produces two variants of the later Modified Flower Class, differing in bridge design, that reviewed here is the ultimate version.
	www.internetmodeler.com /2000/december/first-looks/larsenal_flower.htm (522 words)

	[No title]
		Her captain was an ex-French spy Claude Peri, who assumed the name Jacques Langlais and to the amazement of the crew took his mistress, WRNS officer Madeleine Barclay, onboard with him.
		In an area of the Atlantic known as the Black Pit, an area beyond the protection aircraft, the convoy, escorted by five Canadian corvettes, was attacked by U-boat wolf packs and over the next five days fourteen of the forty-five ships were sunk with 510 lives lost.
		The corvette Polyanthus was also sunk during this attack by a new weapon, the 3,300-pound T-5 acoustic torpedo (GNAT), with a loss of 84 of her crew.
	www.histarmar.com.ar /Hund2GMA/1943b.htm (4099 words)

	HMCS Pictou (K146) Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Like most Flower class corvettes she spent most of her time on convoy escort duties in the Battle of the Atlantic (1940).
		The clandestine French Resistance in Paris rose against the Germans on 19 August, and a French division under General Jacques Leclerc, pressing forward from Normandy, received the surrender of the German forces there and liberated the city on August 25.
		Quebec (pronounced or) (French: Québec, pronounced) is the largest province in Canada and the second most populous, after Ontario, with a population of 7,598,100 (Statistics Canada, July 2005).
	hmcs.pictou.k146.en.ogarnij.info (7791 words)

	Corvette - All About All findings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		C5 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 at the Memphis Motor Speedway, 2004 The Chevrolet Corvette is a sports car first manufactured by Chevrolet in 1953 and is built today exclusively at a General Motors assembly plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
		Corvettes, which are usually deployed as anti-strikecraft (corvettes and fighters) weapons, possess small crew of three to four.
		The Hammer's an obvious evolution from the original corvette and was not originally intended for wide use but rather as a more expensive backup for the lighter Cavalier.
	www.allaboutall.info /search/Corvette (661 words)

	Cross_of_Lorraine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The ''capitaine de corvette'' Thierry d'Argenlieu suggested the adoption of the Cross of Lorraine as symbol of the Free French, both to recall the perseverance of Joan of Arc, whose it had been the symbol, and as an answer to the Hakenkreuz.
		In his general order n° 2 of the 3 July 1940, vice-admiral Émile Muselier, then chief of the naval and air forces of the Free French for onlyb two days, created the bow flag displaying the French colours with a red cross of Lorraine, and a cocarde also featuring the cross of Lorraine.
		Image:FS Aconit 1.jpgthumbThe French frigate [[FS_Aconit''Aconit'', named after the corvette ''Aconit'' of the Free French Forces, flies the Cross of Lorraine on her unit flag]]
	q-basic.xodox.de /Cross_of_Lorraine (694 words)

	Atlantic, Battle, WW2, corvette, Cruel Sea, Monstsarrat, SL, QP, PQ
		Two merchant ships are sunk, but she is attacked by sloop "Black Swan" and corvette "Stonecrop" of the 37th EG and sunk in turn.
		is sunk by sloop "Stork" and corvette "Stonecrop".
		Canadian destroyers "Chaudiere" and "Gatineau", frigate "St Catherines", corvettes "Chilliwack" and "Fennel" and British destroyer "lcarus" are joined by corvette "Kenilworth Castle" before the action is over.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsAtlanticBattles2.htm (4667 words)

	Journal of Intelligence History
		The German Navy had seven cruisers and 21 destroyers on 1 September 1939, while the Royal Navy had no corvettes at the time, they were not ordered before 25 July 1938 (30) and 31 August 1938 (30), and the first of these vessels were commissioned as late as summer 1940.
		But the German offensive was not successful because the French had a sufficient number of reserves at hand to stop the assault and did not need to bring in additional reinforcements.
		There is reason to believe that French archives continue to practice their policy of granting access to sensitive documents on a highly selective basis.
	www.intelligence-history.org /jih/reviews-2-2.html (10511 words)

	Corvette Parts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Discount Corvette Parts Locating Guide - Corvette Parts Locating Guide Books Discounts We are committed to offering our visitors the best value for their money.
		The Corvette is authentic in detail, and has opening doors, steerable front wheels,...
		Many stories add that much of the gold from the French Treasury was in Surcouf's large cargo compartment, and that the wreck was found and entered in 1967 by Jacques Cousteau.
	www.dinosvetteparts.com (841 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - Powerful Naval Forces of Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The French Navy awarded DCN the contracts to construct the La Fayette (F710), Surcoef (F711) and Courbet (F712) frigates in 1988, and Aconit (F713) and Guepratte (F714) in 1992.
		The French Navy has awarded MBDA a contract for the Exocet MM40 Block 3 missile to be deployed on vessels from 2006.
		The first French vessel, Forbin, began construction in April 2002 and was launched in March 2005 for delivery at the end of 2006.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /printthread.php?t=222007 (6021 words)

	Corvette - All About All (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When referring to sailing ships, a corvette is a sloop-of-war.
		The Royal Canadian Navy also operated both Castle and Flower Class corvettes which were named after Canadian cities and towns.
		It is the first operational warship to extensively utilize stealth technology, although other navies are developing similar vessels, such as the Marine nationales La Fayette class Frigates, the Royal Navys Type 45"Daring" Class Destroyer and the US Navy's DD(X) family of ships.
	www.allaboutall.info /article/Corvette (427 words)

	U-Boat Operations
		Earlier Harvester had summoned the Free French corvette Aconit to screen her.
		Aconit saw U-432 and used her guns on it, killing several crew on the bridge including Eckhardt.
		Aconit closed U-432 with the intention of boarding and capturing the boat, but accidentally rammed the boat which quickly sank.
	www.ubootwaffe.net /ops/boat.cgi?boat=432 (950 words)

	HMS Abelia Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		HMS Abelia (K184) was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy.
		The first reformation and major expansion of the Navy Royal, as it was then known, occurred in the 16th century during the reign of Henry VIII whose ships, Henri Grâce a Dieu ("Great Harry") and Mary Rose, engaged the French navy in the battle of the Solent in 1545.
		Royal Marines are fondly known as "Bootnecks" or often just referred to as "Royal" The British Royal Navy is commonly referred to as "The Royal Navy" both inside and outside the United Kingdom.
	hms.abelia.en.ogarnij.info (5911 words)

	The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II--1943
		French fishermen and U.S. Army crash boat P 111 rescue the survivors.
		Canadian corvette HMCS Trillium rescues all hands (including the 21-man Armed Guard) from Chattanooga City as well as 34 of 41 merchant sailors (two of whom die of their wounds) and the entire 21-man Armed Guard from Expositor.
		U-606's opportunity to savor her triple play is short-lived, for Canadian corvette HMCS Chilliwack and Polish destroyer Burza depth charge U-606 and drive her to the surface, where Coast Guard cutter Campbell (WPG-32) rams and sinks her at 47°44'N, 33°43'W. Campbell, damaged in the encounter, is taken in tow by Burza.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/USN-Chron/USN-Chron-1943.html (14713 words)

	POLISH NAVY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the night 30/31 May she rescued 15 members of French destroyer SIROCCO which had been torpedoed by the German motor-torpedo-boats.During evacuation of Dunkirk Royal Navy lost 6 destroyers and 19 were damaged.
		French shore gun batteries were put out of order and port of Cherbourg was left in flames.According information later received, German troops in port were annihilated.
		On June 14th about 0800 hours the convoy was sighted by the Italian plane and from that time convoy was attacked by JU-88 aircrafts several times, in spite of heavy gun fire from ships and own aircraft's from aircraft carriers.
	republika.pl /zweglarz (13915 words)

	HMS Harvester
		Requisitioned by the Royal Navy on 4 September 1939 while being built for the Brazilian Navy.
		rams the German submarine U-444 was but is disabled and the U-boat has to be finished off by French corvette Aconit.
		HMS Harvester, now stationary, is which is in turn brought to the surface by Aconit\'s depth charges and finally destroyed by gunfire and ramming.
	www.hmscavalier.org.uk /H19 (61 words)

	American Hampton class Frigate
		The Hampton class Corvette (designated by the USSF as a “Destroyer Escort”) is one of six classes of light warships operated by the USSF, the others being the old Hancock class, the modern Cayuga class, the French built Aconit class, the American Concord and the British Killiecrankie.
		American forces were forced to protect their shipping along the French Arm, which quickly became a free fire warzone.
		The Division carried out a second mission on the French Arm, escorting the Iwo Jima up arm with substancial other forces, but the USS Hartford was caught discharging over BCV-6 by a Kafer Sentinel that was missed, it managed to disable the Hartford in an unstable orbit and the ship burnt up in the atmosphere.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~dheb/2300/NorthAmerica/US/BMUSSF/ussf/Hampton.htm (2336 words)

	The World at War
		It seems they were well known to French cod fishermen long before Jacques Cartier made the first official visit to them on behalf of King Francis I in 1536.The first year round settlement began in 1604 with the plantation of thirty families from Brittany, Normandy and the Basque Country.
		A spokesman for the French Embassy in Ottawa absolves Canada and speculates that the seizure of the islands has its origins in Newfoundland (at the time the island is being governed by a British appointed commission and is not part of Canada).
		Colmay joined the Free French on July 1, 1940 with the 1st Regiment of Fusiliers Marin, fought in the Middle East: Libyan, Tunisian and Italian campaigns; the landings in Provence and liberation of France, and later in Indochina.
	worldatwar.net /article/miquelon (7882 words)

	ICABC: Lifetime Achievement Awards
		He was the first president and CEO of the Workers’ Compensation Board of BC, and was a partner in the predecessor firm of Grant Thornton in Vancouver for 15 years.
		Among his many achievements, A. Peter Stanley, FCA, has headed up numerous investigations with the governments of Canada and British Columbia, and was president of the BC-Yukon Division of the Canadian Red Cross.
		His ship was torpedoed in the North Atlantic, and he was rescued by HMS Narcissus while watching the Free French Navy corvette Aconit sink the U-boat responsible.
	www.ica.bc.ca /kb.php3?pageid=963 (2061 words)

	liste noire des compagnies aériennes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		French Resistance From Sterwiki The French Resistance is the name used for resistance movements that fought military occupation of France by Nazi Germany and the Vichy France undemocratic regime during World War II after the government and the high command of France surrendered in 1940.
		Governor General's Award for French language poetry From Sterwiki This is a list of the winners of the Governor General's Award for French language poetry.
		Cross of Lorraine From Sterwiki Missing imageCross_of_Lorraine.jpg Cross of Lorraine Missing imageFS_Aconit_1.jpg The French frigate Aconit, named after a corvette of the Free French Forces, flies the Cross of Lorraine on her unit flag The Cross of Lorraine is a heraldic cross.
	liste-noire-des-compagnies-aeriennes.blacklist-airlines.com (1147 words)

	Analysis - The Market for Ship-Deployed Sonars - Archived 10/1998
		The French are presently working on a parametric buried-mine towed array sonar that also involves the British and Dutch.
		The French navy's ASW problems are in one sense similar to those of the UKRN: to escort surface warships and merchant ships in blue water operations, to safeguard its strategic submarines (SSBNs) exiting to their patrol areas, and to work with allies in time of war.
		The ships so fitted, the corvette FS Aconit and the destroyers of the Duquesne and Tourville classes, are scheduled to receive a major modernization in the 1990s, with new ASW systems.
	www.forecastinternational.com /archive/ls/lsanal3.htm (19129 words)

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