Aconit was one of the nine Flower-class corvettes lent by the Royal Navy to the Free French Naval Forces. During World War II, she escorted 116 convoys, spending 728 days at sea. She was awarded the Croix de la Libération and the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945, and was cited by the British Admiralty. Following the war she was used as whaling ship for three different companies from 1947 to 1964.
Aconit in 1942 paint
Aconit returning to Greenock 14 March 1943. She sank two U-boats by gunfire and ramming while escorting an Atlantic convoy through a U-boat pack on 10 March 1943
Two German prisoners from one of the U-boats sunk by the French corvette Aconit on 14 March 1943.
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.