What is Corvette?
{{otheruses}} [[File:Dupleix 1856-1887.jpg|thumb|Corvette Dupleix (1856-1887).]] A '''corvette''' is a small, manageable and lightly armed [[war ship]]. During the [[Age of the Sail]], corvettes were smaller than frigates and larger than [[sloop-of-war|sloops-of-war]], they had normally a single gun deck. Almost all the modern [[Navy|navies]] use ships smaller than frigates for coastal duty, but not all of them use the term ''corvette'' (from the French ''corvair'') or equivalent. {{Warship types}} {{Sailing Vessels and Rigs|state=collapsed}} {{transport-stub}} [[Category:War]] [[Category:Ships]]