The Flower-class corvette was a British class of 294 corvettes used during World War II by the Allied navies particularly as anti-submarine convoy escorts in the Battle of the Atlantic. Royal Navy ships of this class were named after flowers.
HMCS Regina, 1942–1943
HMCS Riviere du Loup
Officers on the open bridge of HMCS Trillium
Early Flower corvettes had a mast before the wheel house.
A corvette is a small warship. It is traditionally the smallest class of vessel considered to be a proper warship. The warship class above the corvette is that of the frigate, while the class below was historically that of the sloop-of-war.
The Tarantul class and its variants are the most widely used corvettes
A corvette in the Trianon model collection
French steam corvette Dupleix (1856–1887)
HMCS Regina, a Flower-class corvette