US Corvettes Commissioned in the United Kingdom
USS Courage Built 1939 as the “Flower Class” corvette HMS Pansy by Harland and Wolff Ltd., Belfast, Northern Ireland Launched 20 April 1940 Renamed Heartsease (K 15) and commissioned 4…
HMCS Trentonian Last Corvette Lost in Action
At 1:20 p.m. on February 22, 1945, as a convoy including ships from the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy sailed out of Wales, the second…
HMNZS Arabis
HMNZS Arabis was commissioned into RNZN service on 22 February 1944 and completed by 16 March 1944. This was a rugged simple design that was meant for wartime construction needs…