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Re: French corvettes
Posted by: Mark Walters ()
Date: January 07, 2005 04:16PM

Hi Dave

They were both part of the B3 Ocean Escort Group by Feb 42. Aconit was originally with the Canadian C1 EG. There was a third FF corvette in the B3 group - FF Lobelia. The blue and yellow checkerboard was indeed the insignia of the B3 group on the funnel. The insignia design was created by the first B3 commander, A.J. Baker-Cresswell who included it on his destroyer HMS Bulldog (which captured the first Enigma machine and code books, aided by the Flower Class Corvette HMS Aubretia, in May 1941). In naval signalling blue and yellow squares signify the number 3

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French corvettes Dave Freeman 12/30/2004 02:03AM
Re: French corvettes john 01/02/2005 06:41PM
Re: French corvettes Mark Walters 01/07/2005 04:16PM
Re: French corvettes Dave Freeman 01/08/2005 11:15PM


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