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Living conditions aboard a Flower-class corvette

A Flower-class corvette packed roughly 89 people into a ship of about 1,000 tons.

Question

What was habitability like aboard a Flower-class corvette?

Short answer

Cramped but survivable: roughly 89 people lived aboard a ship of about 1,000 tons.

Notes

A Flower-class corvette packed about eighty-nine people into a hull of roughly one thousand tons. The accommodation resembled an extremely confined summer-camp dormitory. The ship was crowded and uncomfortable, especially on long Atlantic duties. Other seagoing accommodations could be worse, so the answer is cramped rather than uninhabitable.