Funnily enough, Jodi and I sat next to a lady on the plane back from Melbourne yesterday. Her husband served on the HMAS Bendigo. Unfortunately, I have a cold so my hearing was almost negligible on the plane and couldn't hear all of what she was saying.
Welcome John. Good to have you on board. Have you come across this?
Corvettes
I'm sure you've seen that link before but it might help. It would be worth asking Hugh on this forum as he has an extensive knowledge of the Merchant Navy side of things so might be able to point you in the right direction for researching something nautical.
What we need is a colour photo of one of these old girls in dry dock...like that'll happen!
Just remembered that I have a small book on the Corvettes produced by The West Australian newspaper over here. I will dig it out, please remind me if I don't. I can pretty much guarantee it'll all be in black and white but there might be some interesting references.