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What different navies remember as cheap and cheerful

A navy's idea of an inexpensive mass-production escort usually comes from the Second World War class it operated in large numbers.

Question

Which classes embody the Flower or Fletcher idea of a cheap, cheerful warship for other navies?

Short answer

Usually a navy's wartime corvettes, frigates, or destroyer escorts fill that role; the specific class reflects its own production experience.

Notes

For 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.