LÉ Maev (02)
LÉ Maev was a Flower-class corvette of the Irish Naval Service.[2] She was named after Medb, the legendary queen of Connacht. She was launched in August 1942 as HMS Oxlip, and served on the Arctic convoys during World War II.
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| Name: | HMS Oxlip |
| Namesake: | Oxlip |
| Builder: | A & J Inglis, Glasgow |
| Laid down: | 9 December 1940 |
| Launched: | 28 August 1942 |
| Completed: | 28 December 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | 1946 |
| Maiden voyage: | 1942 |
| In service: | 1942-46 |
| Identification: | K123 |
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| Name: | LÉ Maeve |
| Namesake: | Medb, the legendary queen of Connacht |
| Acquired: | 1946 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: 02 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Flower-class corvette |
| Displacement: | 1020 tons standard (1280 full load) |
| Length: | 205 ft (62 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Depth: | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Installed power: | Single reciprocating vertical 4-cylinder triple expansion by John Kincaid, Greenock[1] |
| Propulsion: | 2,759 ihp (2,057 kW) 2 cylindrical Scotch single-ended boilers. Single shaft |
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| Complement: | 5 officers, 74 ratings |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys: | Degaussing |
Maev was commissioned into Irish service in December 1946,[3] and decommissioned in March 1972.[1]
References
- "Naval Service - Fleet History". military.ie. Irish Defence Forces. Archived from the original on 10 May 2012.
- Aidan McIvor (1994). A History of the Irish Naval Service. Irish Academic Press. p. 228. ISBN 9780716525233.
- "RTÉ Archives - Policing Irish Waters Against Poachers". RTÉ. 1971. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
In 1946 the Department of Defence bought three British corvettes for a bargain price and the Long Éireannach (LÉ) Cliona, LÉ Maev and LÉ Macha, were the sum total of the Irish navy for the next twenty years
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