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LÉ Maev /ˈmeɪv/ 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 1941 as HMS Oxlip, and served on the Arctic convoys during World War II.

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

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