http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/forums/70 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:30:45 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/forums/70 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/1010/t/High-Resolution-Free-Images--Canadian-Corvettes--Available.html
The Candian Government, via the National Defence and Canadian Forces website, have released a large collection of high resolution WWII Canadian corvette and other warship images from their archives for free download as part of the Candian Navy Heritage Project. If you go here feeds@yuku.com (Mark Walters FCCA Member) http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/1010 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:27:55 GMT http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/1007/t/New-Image-HMS-Delphinium.html Built By: Henry Robb Ltd. (Leith, U.K.) : Ailsa Shipbuilding Company Ltd. (Troon, Scotland)
Ordered: 25 Jul 1939
Laid Down: 31 Oct 1939
Launched: 6 Jun 1940
Commissioned: 15 Nov 1940

Crew:
Cdr. Robert Lees Spalding, RN (retired) (Commanding Officer 18/9/40 - 27/3/43)
Cdr. Vivian Funge-Smith, DSO, RD, RNR (Commanding Officer 27/3/43 - September 1944)
T/Lt. Sidney Rule, RNVR (Commanding Officer September 1944 - still in command in... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Mark Walters FCCA Member) http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/1007 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:32:20 GMT http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/996/t/HMCS-Rosthern.html








]]> feeds@yuku.com (K175) http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/996 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:17:17 GMT http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/972/t/Corvette-Port-Arthur.html Canada's National Film Board is marking 70 years as a Canadian
institution with an online Screening Room that provides free video
streaming of more than 700 films. The new Web site at NFB.ca went live
yesterday. Not only are the videos free, but so is the video player used
to showcase them - one similar to YouTube's player both in looks and
function.
One of the videos available is Corvette Port... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (K175) http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/972 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:45:59 GMT http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/970/t/HMS-Buttercup-K193.html


byeeeeeeee Marcel signalman ]]> feeds@yuku.com (signalman) http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/970 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:02:52 GMT http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/954/t/USS-Restless-PG-66-x-HMS-Periwinkle-K55.html http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/09066f.htm Thought it might be of interest. Regards, Jay ]]> feeds@yuku.com (hjh43) http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/954 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:58:20 GMT http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/951/t/HMS-Freesia-Huge-Collection-of-Images.html feeds@yuku.com (Mark Walters) http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/951 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:38:13 GMT http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/946/t/HMS-Rhododendron-in-Liverpool.html
]]> feeds@yuku.com (dazzzasimm) http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/946 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:53:08 GMT http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/943/t/HMCS-Merrittonia-Wartime-Christmas-Card.html Built by: Morton Engineering and Dry Dock Co. (Quebec City, Quebec, Canada)
Laid down: 23 Nov, 1943
Launched: 24 Jun, 1944
Commissioned: 10 Nov, 1944
End service: 11 Jul, 1945
Former name: HMCS Pointe Claire



]]> feeds@yuku.com (Mark Walters) http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/943 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:28:17 GMT http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/942/t/HMCS-Giffard-ex-HMS-Buddleia-.html Built by: Alexander Hall & Co. Ltd. (Aberdeen Scotland)
Laid down: 30 Nov, 1942
Launched: 19 Jun, 1943
Commissioned: 10 Nov, 1943
End service: 5 Jul, 1945
Scrapped in: Canada October 1952.
Former name: HMS Buddleia

Seen here on 13/5/44


]]> feeds@yuku.com (Mark Walters) http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/942 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:09:40 GMT http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/931/t/pictures-and-insignia-of-FFL-corvettes.html I've uploaded some pictures of FFL corvettes here : http://www.1940lafrancecontinue.org/tmp/corvettes/
This is only a temporary place, so don't hesistate to download them.
These pictures are of various origins, very difficult to know if there are some rights on them.
]]> feeds@yuku.com (lmah) http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/931 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:32:24 GMT http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/930/t/HMCS-Prescott-Crew-Photo.html
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]]> feeds@yuku.com (Spielspieler) http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/925 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:33:25 GMT http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/924/t/HMS-Spiraea.html Built by: A & J Inglis Ltd. (Glasgow, Scotland) : Kincaid
Ordered: 21 Sep, 1939
Laid down: 31 May, 1940
Launched: 31 Oct, 1940
Commissioned: 27 Feb, 1941
Sold: August 1945. Became the merchant Thessalonika in 1948.

Historical Events:
13 Mar, 1943
HMS Spiraea (Lt. A.H. Pierce, OBE, RNR) picks up 4 survivors from the British merchant Oporto that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-107 190 nautical miles west of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Mark Walters FCCA Member) http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/924 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:13:38 GMT http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/916/t/Unknown-RN-corvette-at-evacuation-of-Crete-May-1941.html
]]> feeds@yuku.com (Mark Walters FCCA Member) http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/916 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:55:23 GMT http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/492/t/Corvette-print.html feeds@yuku.com (donmac1923) http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/492 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:46:07 GMT http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/501/t/HMCS-Parry-Sound.html Built by: Marine Industries Ltd. (Sorel, Quebec, Canada)
Ordered:
Laid down: 11 Jun, 1943
Launched: 13 Nov, 1943
Commissioned: 30 Aug, 1944
End service: 10 Jul, 1945

History:
After commissioning Parry Sound arrived at Halifax in late September 1944 and left there in October for three weeks training in Bermuda. From Bermuda she sailed direct to St. John's, arriving on November 11th, and was assigned to Escort Group C-7. As the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Mark Walters FCCA Member) http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/501 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:56:33 GMT http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/505/t/HMCS-Fennel-Crew.html


feeds@yuku.com (Mark Walters FCCA Member) http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/505 Sun, 20 May 2007 13:57:00 GMT http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/500/t/HMCS-Mayflower-Crew-and-Gunshield-Art.html
The gunshield art shows Daisy Mae, the heroine of the wartime Li'l Abner comic strip by Al Capps. She carries a smoking shotgun, having just blasted the sinking U-Boat in the background, and is watched by smirking flowers and a winking sun. The Mayflower was known to the crew as Daisy Mae.

The original photo... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Mark Walters FCCA Member) http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/500 Sun, 20 May 2007 13:49:53 GMT http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/509/t/HMCS-Barrie.html

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Mark Walters FCCA Member) http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/topic/509 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:23:26 GMT