Hi Betty, Just an aside here.  In the early years of WW11 my uncle served in the Canadian navy on the flower class corvette HMCS Trillium. Later my brother served on the HMCS Orillia (named after a small town in Ontario Canada).  The later corvettes that were used by the Canadian navy were named after towns and cities across the country in order to (as I once read) boost the country's morale and support for our contribution to the war effort. Some of the tales my bro. and uncle told about the conditions on the (however beloved) corvettes because of their violent rolling and pitching nature were rather harrowing but thankfully they both loved the sea, adapted well and, unlike some, at the end of it all were fortunate enough to make it through the war intact. Hazel... Ontario Canada ________________________________ From: Irene Read <irene.read4@btopenworld.com> To: Ms Betty Fredericks <bbffrrpp@yahoo.com>; mariners@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 6:35:19 PM Subject: Re: [MAR] Flower-Class Corvette, Hawksbury Hi Betty, Those of us of a certain age will remember the novel, The Cruel Sea, mentioned in your reference, and the 1953 film thereof, starring Jack Hawkins.  The film is available from the usual well-known source, and is well worth seeing, even if the 'special effects' will induce laughter or worse from the younger generation. Graham ( husband of) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ms Betty Fredericks" <bbffrrpp@yahoo.com> To: <Mariners@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 12:16 PM Subject: [MAR] Flower-Class Corvette, Hawksbury Hello, I don't remember seeing the term, Flower-class Corvette, before, so I just looked on-line, and found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_class_corvette Many ships are mentioned on that page. Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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