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.

History
United Kingdom
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
Ireland
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
Speed:
  • max: 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
  • cruising: 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement: 5 officers, 74 ratings
Sensors and
processing systems:
Electronic warfare
& decoys:		 Degaussing

Maev was commissioned into Irish service in December 1946,[3] and decommissioned in March 1972.[1]

References
  1. "Naval Service - Fleet History". military.ie. Irish Defence Forces. Archived from the original on 10 May 2012.
  2. Aidan McIvor (1994). A History of the Irish Naval Service. Irish Academic Press. p. 228. ISBN 9780716525233.
  3. "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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