The Flower-class corvette is a British light escort vessel.
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The Flower-class corvettes had been developed with the intention to be simple to build and to operate, while capable of protecting merchant shipping from submarine threats. For this role, it did not need much speed nor armament, but excellent sonar and good manoeuvrability. 267 of these light vessels were built, and most of them were assigned to escort duties in the northern Atlantic by the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy. Some of them have been transferred to allied Navies during the war, such like those of the Netherlands, Free French, India, Greece and New Zealand.
In BattleGroup42 the Flower-class corvette carries a BL 4 inch (102mm) Mk IX naval gun and depth charges, which are adequate for inshore patrol and anti-submarine warfare. It also has a twin Oerlikon 20mm gun and two twin Vickers K machine guns to defend itself from smaller hostiles. Two pinnaces spawn at the rear of the ship.
The ship can be found on maps such as 4204-Channel Patrol, 4205-Operation Ironclad and 4210-Wolfpack.
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