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What is a corvette?

What is a corvette? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (nautical, historical) A flush-decked warship of the 17th-18th centuries having a single tier of guns; it ranked next below a frigate; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.
  2. (nautical) In a modern navy, a lightly armed and armoured blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of transoceanic duty.
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A stealth corvette of the YS 2000 design has a detection range of 13 km in rough seas and 22 km in calm sea without jamming.
The player will often see the old Dreadnaught class corvette acting as escort to a convoy.
At the cessation of hostilities the corvette was based at Hong Kong for minesweeping and patrol duties.
Two and a half hours later all those on or around the Carley float were rescued by a corvette.
Seaman Gunner R. E. Walsh chopping ice from the superstructure of the corvette HMCS Lunenburg.
That did not make the corvette a comfortable ship: as soon as the sea gets choppy, corvettes tend to roll and pitch wildly.

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