Literature
- Alex H. Cherry wrote Yankee R N, the story of a Wall Street banker who volunteered for active duty in the RN, including details of Flower operations.
- Peter Coy, who served in Narcissus in the North Atlantic between June 1942 and August 1944, wrote 'The Echo of a Fighting Flower' about her and B3 Escort Group, comprising two British and four Free French corvettes.
- Hugh Garner wrote Storm Below which provides a detailed account of Flower-class corvettes and the stresses of shipboard life during World War II.
- James B. Lamb wrote The Corvette Navy, which accounts the use of these vessels by the RCN during World War II.
- Hal Lawrence wrote A Bloody War including first-hand accounts of his service aboard Moosejaw and Oakville.
- Nicholas Monsarrat wrote the best-known fictionalised account of Flower-class corvette operations in his novel The Cruel Sea. Three Corvettes, a less well known volume by the same author is a collection of wartime essays of his personal experiences as an officer on board a Flower, although only the first part deals with North Atlantic convoy escort duties.
- Robert Radcliffe wrote Upon Dark Waters, a fictionalized account of Flower-class corvette Daisy, set in 1942 on the North Atlantic.
- Denys Rayner wrote Escort, a first-hand account of his experiences as an officer aboard a Flower.
- Douglas Reeman's 1969 novel "To Risks Unknown" features the fictional Flower-class corvette Thistle.
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