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  • Flower Class Plans

    Link below has plans of a Canadian Flower Class type, rigged for minesweeping, without ASDIC or Radar. Note also they located their aft gun differently to the British Versions.
    The Crew Accomodation is most Interesting. Seamen and stokers don't even share a deck.



    Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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    "Hey Frank, what do you think we should call this class of navy ship, maybe something along the lines of destroyer, cutter or dreadnaught? Something manly as we get enough stick for being camp in the navy"
    "Hmmmm...I know!...FLOWER CLASS!!!!"
    "Fabulous"
    "Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose"

    "Don't waste money buying expensive binoculars. Simply stand next to the object you wish to view."

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    • #3
      It looks different to the Flower Class Corvetts we had in service .
      Last edited by Laners; 7 June 2012, 11:45.
      Don't spit in my Bouillabaisse .

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Laners View Post
        It looks different to the Flower Class Corvetts we had in service .
        Yeah, it's a canadian design, who had their pom pom further aft, in a basket. It's also rigged for minesweeping, lacks a radio room or ASDIC hut, and has a covered "compass house", and of course lacks a radar of any kind.


        Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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        • #5
          There does appear to be an ASDIC compartment below the Stokers mess . Looks to be a hybrid Corvette / Minesweeper .
          Don't spit in my Bouillabaisse .

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Laners View Post
            There does appear to be an ASDIC compartment below the Stokers mess . Looks to be a hybrid Corvette / Minesweeper .
            That's just it. Murph discovered years ago when making a 1/72 model of the type that ours were very different to the original design. I think one of ours was different again, with a longer forecastle, designated as a command corvette or something?





            Of course the original configuration also had 2 masts, which was replaced in the 1940s with first one mast in front of the bridge, and later with a lattice aft of the bridge.
            Last edited by Goldie fish; 7 June 2012, 14:14.


            Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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            • #7
              Plus the Canadian version has a well deck with a mast/ derrick between the bridge and forecastle and it looks shorter overall .
              Last edited by Laners; 7 June 2012, 14:21.
              Don't spit in my Bouillabaisse .

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              • #8
                Again, at risk of repeating myself, the plans above are the ORIGINAL, 1930s design, with 4 inch front, and pom-pom aft. In the 30 years the type were in service, they gained numerous modifications and weapons, and alterations.


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                • #9
                  Gotcha, I was assuming that both types were from the same era . I was of the opinion that the Corvettes as we know them were introduced in WW2 specificaly as convoy escorts , i was not aware that they had been around prior .
                  Don't spit in my Bouillabaisse .

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                  • #10
                    My Father at sea on one of our Corvettes , right hand side of pic.
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                    • #11
                      I have already given the Mrs 'warning orders' of my intent to visit HMCS Sackville in Halifax in two years time.

                      If I make it I'll make sure I take plenty of photos.

                      A good book re Canadian Flowers is 'Anatomy of the Ship; The Flower Class Corvette Agassiz'...but the Canadian ones were not named after flowers, but Canadian towns. The Agassiz's funnel badge was of a grizzly bear holding a U-Boat!

                      The book goes into a good bit of detail re modifications etc.
                      'History is a vast early warning system'. Norman Cousins

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                      • #12
                        Was the bridge on the Irish Corvettes open to the elements all the time or was there also a covered bridge

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                        • #13
                          Open to the elements. Duffel Coats were provided.
                          See 1.50


                          Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by apc View Post
                            Was the bridge on the Irish Corvettes open to the elements all the time or was there also a covered bridge
                            Open bridge but and enclosed wheelhouse below the bridge, the minesweepers had the same arrangement when they arrived and sometime afterwards the bridges were enclosed . The Duffle coats continued to be fashionable on the sweepers , i can still see Baz wearing his .
                            Last edited by Laners; 7 June 2012, 18:31.
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                            • #15
                              A good book re Canadian Flowers is 'Anatomy of the Ship; The Flower Class Corvette Agassiz'...but the Canadian ones were not named after flowers, but Canadian towns. The Agassiz's funnel badge was of a grizzly bear holding a U-Boat!
                              I have it, bought it with the intention of building a model from it, but the model was so wrong in places especially around the guns and ships boats conversion was not an economic reality coupled with the reality of our corvettes where you would have had to build up nine examples to cover the modifications while in service.

                              Canadian ones are a nightmare, given there were two basic versions , then there were the RN ones transferred into RCN service.

                              The model I was never meant to build.....
                              Covid 19 is not over ....it's still very real..Hand Hygiene, Social Distancing and Masks.. keep safe

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