"The ducktailed little ship that would roll on wet grass". The Corvette was the Atlantic convoy defensive mainstay. armed with a couple of 4 inch guns and lots of depth charges, they fought off German submarines while the crew did their jobs best they could in the cold and wet.
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| Thomas G. Lynch, Canada's Flowers, History of the Corvettes of Canada 1939-45, Nimbus Pub. 1981 |
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I wouldn't have lasted five minutes on one of those. Tough men they were.
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