The label 'war emergency build' is often attached to the Second World War Flower-class corvettes. Their programme began before the war, although the ships were deliberately designed for rapid construction. The First World War Flower-class sloops were the vessels actually ordered under wartime emergency conditions. This separates a prewar quick-build programme from a genuine wartime emergency programme. The earlier sloops are now much less remembered.
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Which Flower class was the wartime emergency design?
The First World War Flower-class sloops were true war emergency ships, while the better-known Second World War Flower-class corvettes were planned before the war as quick-build escorts.