We were an escort vessel, carrying out convoy duty. The Flower Class Corvettes were referred to as uncomfortable in their extreme! It was also known that if you could stand a Flower Class Corvette ...

Then was off on a convoy to West Africa to join HMS Starwort - a Flower Class Corvette, where I served 4.1/2 years as a Medical Assistant. HMS Starwort was the K.20, built at Clydeside by J.Inglis ...

These vessels were of the River Class, and HMS Nith was one of these. "If a Flower Class corvette had an estimated cost of £55,000, a River Class firgate would have certainly cost twice that amount.

Flower class Corvette K19, HMS Nigella, visits Cocos Islands, 1944 Transcribed from a video recording Oh yes. Mid 1944 We were in dry dock. I was posted again, this time to a corvette, K19 ...