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Home Dictionary Name: frigateFrigate
Originally a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars The French about 1650 transferred the name to larger vessels and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line Frigates from about 1750 to 1850 had one full battery deck and often a spar deck with a lighter battery They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870 when the introduction of ironclads superseded them...
Frigate built
Built like a frigate with a raised quarter deck and forecastle...
Convoy
To accompany for protection either by sea or land to attend for protection to escort as a frigate convoys a merchantman...
Corvet
A war vessel ranking next below a frigate and having usually only one tier of guns called in the United States navy a sloop of war...
Fregatidae
A natural family including the genus Fregata of frigate birds...
man of war bird
The frigate bird a long billed warm water seabird with wide wingspan and forked tail also applied to the skua gulls and to the wandering albatross...
Razee
An armed ship having her upper deck cut away and thus reduced to the next inferior rate as a seventy four cut down to a frigate...
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