Which classes embody the Flower or Fletcher idea of a cheap, cheerful warship for other navies?
Short answerUsually a navy's wartime corvettes, frigates, or destroyer escorts fill that role; the specific class reflects its own production experience.
NotesFor many fleets the Flower-class corvette remains the model, while some remember Allen M. Sumner-class destroyers or wartime frigates and destroyer escorts. The United States is the outlier because its industrial baseline made the Fletcher class feel like the ordinary inexpensive standard.