A bit before my time, the Irish Naval Service bought 3 Flower Class Corvettes from the Royal Navy in 1946-47 they were in service up to 1970. These vessels had a tough life on the West Coast used mainly in Fishery Protection . All three were scrapped at Passage West Cork 1970 - 71. HMS Borage became L.E. Macha HMS Oxlip became L.E.Maeve HMS Bellwort became L.E. Cliona http://www.military.ie/naval-service/history/past-ships Mick O Rourke Mariners List ----- Original Message ----- From: <AndyCAdams@aol.com> To: <mariners@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 4:27 PM Subject: [MAR] Flower Class Corvettes > Dear List and Betty > > The majority of the Flower Class were in the Royal Navy and the Royal > Canadian Navy. However a limited number ended up in service with US Navy > in the > early period of America's entry into the war, and at least four French > vessels of this class ended up being taken over by the Kriegsmarine. As > far as > I am aware the sole remaining example is HMCS Sackville which is > preserved > in Canada having served the latter part of her active life with the RCMP. > > With reference to The Cruel Sea, so rapid was the scrapping programme of > these vessels after WWII that by 1953 the only active vessels in Europe at > the time of the making of the film were in the Royal Hellenic Navy and it > was > the Greek vessels which featured in the film > > Rgds > > Andy Adams > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MARINERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message