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Successive minesweeping and anti-submarine batches gave Britain and France 120 Flower-family sloops, about 100 of which survived the war and immediate aftermath.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Flower-class armament was flexible but modest; effectiveness came from matching the ship to mines, submarines, escort support, and presence work.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Purpose-built anti-submarine vessels were expected to ram submarines when an opportunity arose, as HMS Dreadnought famously did.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Treasury pressure shadowed HMS Enterprise's completion, while the sharper Royal Navy debate concerned the cancelled third E-class cruiser, HMS Euphrates.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
The sloop adds specialized protection against submarines and mines rather than acting as a fleet picket or principal surface fighter.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Range, target position, roll, and rate of fire all shaped when a deck gun crew chose to shoot.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
The Flower sloops established a durable small-escort pattern later refined into interwar sloops, wartime corvettes, escort destroyers, and frigates.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
About two World War I Flower-family sloops reached World War II service, with HMS Foxglove surviving German air attack and remaining useful in a support role.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
A live correction notes that the Echo-class survey ship HMS Enterprise had decommissioned in March 2023, following sister HMS Echo in 2022.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
The former HMS Saxifrage, later HMS President, is presented as the likely last surviving physical example of the World War I Flower-family sloops.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
A bomb amidships could destroy machinery spaces, while comparable hits near the ends of a sloop or destroyer left more structure available to contain damage.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
The white-hulled HQS Wellington offered a preserved small-warship setting where students could study naval design and service life directly.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Building and crewing roughly 120 escorts showed Germany that Britain could replace losses, protect trade, and mobilize maritime industry at scale.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
HMS Veronica shows how inexpensive station sloops extended British presence while helping Dominion navies such as New Zealand's build local capability.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Lieutenant commanders and commanders could gain early independent command in sloops before advancing to cruisers or specialist warfare appointments.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Home and Mediterranean sloop service created mine and anti-submarine specialists, with Frederic John Walker as the best-known product of that professional stream.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Distant-station experience gave many naval officers language ability, regional knowledge, and habits of cooperation valued by diplomatic services.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
A modest annual program could have entered 1939 with trained crews, escort hulls, and industrial capacity already available.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
A reused World War I Flower hull and the renewed British building program show how interwar sloop capacity survived and then grew in batches.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
A steady eight-ship annual program could reduce emergency escort construction and make early U-boat losses damage Germany's later training cadre.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
A continuing sloop program would not replace destroyers, but it could accelerate dual-purpose guns and enlarge the turbine-production base shared with wartime construction.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
The demanding Perisher course selects submarine commanders, but a cheaper diesel-electric boat could provide independent sea-command experience before an officer receives an SSN.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
A sloop accompanied HMS Birmingham to recover SS Vincent de Paul, adding presence and tactical flexibility without making the force look needlessly escalatory.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Modern patrol vessels fill the low-cost, persistent role once served by sloops, but useful coverage requires several ships at each important station.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Sloops sacrificed destroyer speed and torpedoes to become adaptable minesweepers, escorts, net vessels, anti-aircraft supports, survey ships, and persistent local callers.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Heavy weapons raise cost, crew, maintenance, and political pressure to misuse an OPV as a frigate without actually making it one.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Sandown-class minehunters are functional sloops because mine warfare had long been one of the type's defining missions.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
A layered fleet should send a River, Type 31, Type 26, or Type 45 according to the threat instead of making every patrol ship imitate a frigate.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Speed, roughly month-long endurance, fast boats, a helicopter-capable deck, and space for up to 50 embarked personnel make Batch 2 Rivers useful for persistent security work.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
A River-derived uncrewed escort could support warships while retaining a flight deck and limited accommodation for maintenance teams.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
The extra volume inside a 40 mm shell makes advanced ammunition easier and more economical to develop than comparable 30 mm rounds.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
A 57 mm gun offers a real capability increase over 40 mm, but its larger cost jump makes an OPV look more like a cheap frigate without delivering Type 31 capability.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Thailand can justify a 76 mm OPV gun because it is common across its fleet, while Britain gains a cheaper and more proportionate upgrade by standardizing on 40 mm.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
An OPV gains more from standard, easily maintained equipment than from bespoke high technology that demands specialist support in distant ports.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Twenty-millimetre guns remain common on NATO OPVs because they are cheap and proportionate to many small patrol ships' operating areas and likely threats.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Weapons and equipment on a diplomatic presence ship should be easy to secure, inspect, and restore when visitors come aboard.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Danish modularity makes the Knud Rasmussen-class patrol vessels a compelling modern sloop model, but another navy must fund modules, support, and common interfaces across more than one OPV class.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
If Type 31s are late, extending suitable Type 23s preserves real frigate capability more effectively than taking River OPVs offline for complex upgrades.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Small fleets are brittle when refits overrun or worn ships fail, making reserve hulls and low-end ships important to sustained readiness.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
If both superpowers know nuclear use means mutual loss, rivalry continues below that threshold and conventional escalation must be managed carefully.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Batch 2 Rivers are Merlin-capable, but the recollection that HMS Clyde's deck was tested for Chinook operations remains unconfirmed.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Vertical-launch systems designed on the assumption that their magazines would not need reloading become a logistical constraint once a conflict lasts.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
BAE's Avenger proposal showed how a River hull could become a corvette, but the result did not create enough capability beyond an OPV to justify choosing it as the Type 31 frigate.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Twelve simpler ships can sustain more deployments and absorb refit failures better than six more powerful ships bought for the same budget.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Britain could supplement scarce SSNs with cheaper SSKs or build two extra Dreadnought-family hulls able to alternate between guided-missile and ballistic-missile duties.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
Turning on the shipyard pipeline too quickly creates empty hulls unless recruitment and training expand early enough to provide crews when the ships commission.
From Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century? ·
HMS Diamond introduces a lesson in why impressive firepower deters only when opponents believe a government will use it.
From HMS Diamond(1950) D35: Presence without Conviction is no Detterence - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 8 ·
The video compares firm naval ultimatums with offers containing so many alternatives that an opponent may perceive room to delay.
From HMS Diamond(1950) D35: Presence without Conviction is no Detterence - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 8 ·