SS Empire Rest
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SS Empire Rest was a convoy rescue ship built for the Royal Navy during World War II, originally laid down as the Castle-class corvette Rayleigh Castle. Post-war she served as a transport ship until 1
Empire Rest
Flower-class corvette
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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 shi
SS Empire Rest
…she served as a transport ship until 1948, was sold in 1951, and scrapped in 1952. The Castle-class corvette was a stretched version of the preceding Flower class, enlarged to improve seakeeping and to accommodate modern weapons. The convoy rescue conversions had an overall length of 252 feet (76.8 m), a beam of…
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Early Flower corvettes had a mast before the wheel house.