I imagine when one thinks of a World War II-era warship, they think of sleek battleships and heavy cruisers slicing through waves at 30 knots. A clumsy adaptation of a 30s whale chaser, armed with a single 4-inch gun and a couple dozen depth charges, doesn?t exactly fit one?s description of "superior firepower." The British designed the Flower-class Corvette as a "stopgap" measure to protect Allied convoys crossing the Atlantic.............
The Flower class corvette was one of the most famous and numerous of all escort vessels, and the corvette Agassiz is the most representative of the Canadian Flowers, which were thrown into the thick of the bitter Atlantic convoy battles of 1941-2. This is a superb description of the ship and her career.
Название: the Flower-Class Corvette Agassiz
Authors: John McKay & John Harland
Publisher: Conway Maritime Press
ISBN: 0851779751
Язык: english
Кол-во страниц: 160
Формат: PDF
Размер: 89.6 MB
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