frigates in English

noun
1
a warship with a mixed armament, generally heavier than a destroyer (in the US Navy) and of a kind originally introduced for convoy escort work.
Predominantly it was the destroyers and frigates of the Navy that served.

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1. All ESSM launches from De Zeven Provinciën class frigates and Sachsen class frigates involved ESSMs quad-packed in a Mark 41 Vertical Launching System.

2. Some Indian frigates also carry the M-1 Volna system.

3. These frigates will all serve in the Black Sea Fleet.

4. Navy used to send frigates through this canal all the time.

5. The navy had already purchased two Gepard 3.9 frigates in 2011.

6. Subsidiary Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems also manufactures frigates, corvettes and submarines for the German and foreign navies.

7. Holbox is a bird’s paradise, thousands of flamingos, white pelicans, cranes, osprey, frigates, spoonbills etc.

8. The first ironclads were classified as "frigates" because of the number of guns they carried.

9. At its height, the Navy had 94 ships-of-the-line, 104 frigates and 37 sloops in service.

10. The navy of the Dutch Republic became the first navy to build the larger ocean-going frigates.

11. Then they sent two frigates in pursuit of the galley, but they were unable to find it.

12. By December 13, 1775, Congress had authorized the construction of 13 new frigates, rather than refitting merchantmen to increase the fleet.

13. As the principal weapon of the PAAMS system, Aster equips the Type 45 destroyers and the Horizon class frigates.

14. This Asdic set was mainly fitted into frigates and Tribal class destroyers and designed to be used with Hedgehog or Squid (mortar bomb)

15. Strengthened by the squadron of Vice Adm. Fyodor, Nakhimov consolidated over 700 cannon in six ships of the line, two frigates and three armed steamers.

16. California Dreaming _ At daylight passed within gun shot of one of the frigates, but she did not fire on us, perhaps for fear of Becalming her as the wind was light

17. The Royal Navy captured a handful of the new French frigates during the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748) and were impressed by them, particularly for their inshore handling capabilities.

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20. Bellicose Class Role: Cruiser: Being a highly versatile class of Minmatar ships, the Bellicose has been used as a combat juggernaut as well as a support ship for wings of frigates

21. Captain Clelland said the AMCAP, which comes after the Anzac Class Frigates underwent the Anti-Ship Missile Defence program, was a complex task that required close cooperation between Navy and its key partners.

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23. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Corvettes were three-masted ships with square rigging similar to that of frigates and ships of the line, but they carried only about 20 guns on the top deck

24. The "short-hull" Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates that are currently part of the Turkish Navy were modified with the ASIST landing platform system at the Gölcük Naval Shipyard, so that they can accommodate the S-70B Seahawk helicopters.

25. Abyssal Deadspaces are dangerous areas that can only be entered by a single cruiser after activating an Abyssal Filament, or by a fleet of up to three frigates using three filaments of the same time and tier, for the capsuleers seeking a cooperative challenge.

26. 25 The other two-thirds of Canadian seagoing personnel were, for the most part, to be found in the escort groups of the Western Escort Force (24 corvettes and five Algerine minesweepers), and the Mid-Ocean Escort Force (five ‘C’ groups with eight frigates and 26 corvettes) which were now predominantly Canadian.