Corvette

Corvette Dupleix (1856-1887).

A corvette is a small, manageable and lightly armed war ship. During the Age of the Sail, corvettes were smaller than frigates and larger than sloops-of-war, they had normally a single gun deck. Almost all the modern navies use ships smaller than frigates for coastal duty, but not all of them use the term corvette (from the French corvair) or equivalent.

Corvette Media

Tarantul-class corvette Zarechny of the Russian Navy
A corvette in the Trianon model collection.
HMCS Regina, a Flower-class corvette
Korean Pohang-class corvette
Argentine MEKO Espora-class corvette
Corvette Braunschweig of the German Navy
ARA Uruguay, an Argentine corvette from 1874, has been a museum ship in Buenos Aires since 1967

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