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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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The corvette design includes capacity for the future installation of mine warfare systems.
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.
Seaman Gunner R. E. Walsh chopping ice from the superstructure of the corvette HMCS Lunenburg.
Soon, the rush of golden energy shot from the MPS Cannon, and burned a hole through a shieldless corvette.
That did not make the corvette a comfortable ship: as soon as the sea gets choppy, corvettes tend to roll and pitch wildly.
Able Seaman Enio Girardo of the corvette HMCS Edmundston, who was rescued by his shipmates after being washed overboard in a storm at sea.

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