"William Black" wrote in message
...

The Flower class corvettes were only 200 feet long and were expected to
operate in the North Atlantic in all conditions.

Even the USN operated a dozen or so of them...

--
William Black



If you want to see one up close... the father-in-law sailed on this one
after his Norwegian boat came here to avoid being taken over by the Germans.
http://www.hmcssackville-cnmt.ns.ca/history.html