The Royal Navy had spent years refining what an effective small escort needed to do. Once war required large numbers, the accumulated knowledge made it possible to choose commercial hulls and machinery that could carry the necessary capability. The Flower-class corvette and later frigate programmes became the mass-production outcome of that earlier experimentation. Their arrival followed from the interwar sloop effort rather than proving that it had failed.
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From refined sloops to mass-produced escorts
The interwar programme refined the equipment and operating requirements that could later be fitted into commercial hulls for wartime corvettes and frigates.