Almost as soon as hostilities ended the corvette fleets of Britain and Canada began to disband, with most going to the scrapyard. However, some survived into the 1960s, 70s and in one case to the present day. Of these, 52 ex-RCN corvettes went to mercantile use and became whalers, freighters and even luxury yachts. Sudbury became a salvage tug on Canada's West coast, Shediac a Dutch whaler, Norysd and Beauharnois to the Mediterannean where they were used to smuggle Jews into Palestine. Bryony became the Norwegian weathership Polarfront II. Origins of some of those shown below are still lacking.
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