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  • n  a highly maneuverable escort warship; smaller than a destroyer

  • Then a night torpedo sends the corvette herself to the bottom.
  • Green water pounded the corvette's narrow decks, doused her open bridge where the hooded skipper stood squinting into the mist.
  • This time, however, a Communist corvette closed in on Motor Launch 1323 and ordered her to heave to.
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