Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Another job you probably didn't want to do; crewman on a corvette



"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.



Thomas G. Lynch, Canada's Flowers, History of the Corvettes of Canada 1939-45, Nimbus Pub. 1981

 



1 comment:

VectorWarbirds said...

I wouldn't have lasted five minutes on one of those. Tough men they were.