(n.) 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were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them.
(n.) Any small vessel on the water.
Example Sentences:
(1) At Gölcük naval base, a frigate was reportedly taken over by an unidentified anti-government group and the head of the Turkish fleet was held hostage, a Greek military source told Reuters.
(2) The workforce at BAE in Glasgow is second to none and the promises made to them must be honoured.” In last autumn’s defence review, the government announced it would order eight frigates instead of the original 13.
(3) In its recent decision to end Portsmouth’s role as a naval dockyard, the British government said recently that future warships - notably a new generation of frigates - would be built in Scotland only if Scotland remained part of Britain.
(4) Seven News reported that Australia had dispatched a P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft and the Anzac-class frigate HMAS Stuart to monitor the four Russian ships, which were said to be in the Coral Sea south of Bougainville and heading towards Australian waters.
(5) Captain Jeremy Hill, commander of the American frigate USS Taylor, admits it is getting harder to distinguish between legitimate fishermen and the pirates.
(6) As well as the frigates and destroyers, the French have an Awacs surveillance plane in the area.
(7) I don’t think that will strike the public as the best way to keep us safe.” In other announcements, the government said eight Type-26 frigates will be built on the Clyde, nine new surveillance planes will be based at Lossiemouth in Scotland to counter Russian air and submarine activity around UK airspace and water, and the number of Typhoon aircraft is to be extended for an extra 10 years to 2040, meaning there will be a total of seven frontline squadrons, with about 12 planes per squadron.
(8) This will end the boom and bust which has occurred in terms of naval shipbuilding in this country.” Staged tender will take place for $20bn Collins class submarine replacement Read more Andrews’s spokesperson said $89bn was the expected total acquisition cost for Australia’s future submarine, future frigate and offshore patrol vessel programs.
(9) Portsmouth based engineers will be retained to support the design and development of the Type 26 frigate programme.
(10) The Clyde's won these contracts because it's the best place to build the frigates.
(11) A German frigate could help protect the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the eastern Mediterranean, from which fighter jets are carrying out bombing runs, and tanker aircraft could refuel them mid-air to extend their range, the defence minister, Ursula von der Leyen, said last week.
(12) Plans for a state-of-the-art “frigate factory” – which it had been hoped would help the yard win future export orders – also appear to have been shelved, and there are concerns that work promised to Scotland will be relocated to England.
(13) The defence secretary, Philip Hammond , recently said both yards would close – and contracts for the navy's next-generation Type 26 frigates would be lost – if Scotland voted for independence, as no UK government would pay a foreign shipyard to build its warships.
(14) The occupation comes after a nine-day stand-off between Greenpeace and the Danish navy, which has sent its frigate Vaedderen to the area, deploying elite Danish commandos on high-speed boats to patrol a 500m exclusion zone around the rigs.
(15) An attempt by militants to take over a Pakistani navy frigate in port in Karachi shortly after that announcement failed – but only just, western officials in Delhi said.
(16) But civilian coastguard patrols are struggling to fill the void left by the navy frigates that led operations for Mare Nostrum, said Flavio Di Giacomo, IOM’s spokesman in Italy .
(17) Russia then launched a search and rescue mission involving frigates and nuclear submarines to prevent the incident blowing up into an international scandal, it added.
(18) The number of destroyers and frigates will be cut from 23 to 19 and the navy will loose an amphibious landing vessel.
(19) The naval force, led by HMS Illustrious and including two frigates, will sail for the Mediterranean on Monday at the start of a four-month deployment.
(20) Argentina has complained to the UN of the UK's "militarisation" of the south Atlantic following news of the six-month deployment of Dauntless, which the Ministry of Defence has said is on routine mission taking over patrols from the frigate HMS Montrose.
Ironclad
Definition:
(a.) Clad in iron; protected or covered with iron, as a vessel for naval warfare.
(a.) Rigorous; severe; exacting; as, an ironclad oath or pledge.
(n.) A naval vessel having the parts above water covered and protected by iron or steel usually in large plates closely joined and made sufficiently thick and strong to resist heavy shot.
Example Sentences:
(1) All the beliefs, opinions and doubts I hold are just that: they are ideas, not ironclad convictions.
(2) That's not to say this rule is ironclad, by any means, but Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, and most importantly, Paul Ryan are all in better position per this criterion.
(3) If governments are not to become dependent on “insider” corporations, with the exclusion of other voices, overpricing and grotesque corruption risks that entails, then the ironclad regulation of lobbying and the re-establishment of disinterested civil and public service capacity should now be on every democrat’s agenda.
(4) The US maintained an “ironclad commitment” to the defence of South Korea , he added.
(5) In an effort to shore up the banks’ balance sheet, regular bank customers were sold investments that they wrongly believed were ironclad.
(6) The culture secretary, Maria Miller, has embarked on a year-long battle to persuade her party to embrace same-sex marriage, promising to secure ironclad guarantees that no religious groups would be required to conduct such ceremonies against their will.
(7) As US attorney for the eastern district of New York, Lynch built an ironclad reputation for steadily guiding the most complicated criminal prosecutions – from terrorism cases to sex trafficking to government corruption – toward conviction.
(8) This must be an ironclad agreement so that no commonwealth government can refuse to meet its obligations to health and education.” Foley also unveiled a plan for thousands of existing public housing dwellings to be transferred to the not-for-profit community housing sector, saying this was one area where non-government bodies were better placed to succeed.
(9) A spokesman for Netanyahu claimed to have “ironclad evidence” that the Obama administration had plotted behind the scenes to promote the UN resolution.
(10) Obama’s prohibition on ground forces in a combat role was less ironclad than the president has publicly stated, Dempsey suggested.
(11) The administration insists its opposition to Assad remains ironclad.
(12) She told reporters: “We are looking for an action-focused, results-oriented approach, and we are going to be trying to cooperate with other partners and allies in a global coalition really to try to solve this problem in an urgent way that we haven’t really taken up before.” Thornton said Washington’s commitment to the defence of South Korea and Japan was “ironclad”, adding: “We will do whatever is necessary to ensure that we’re going to maintain security in that region and that we’re going to be very serious about pursuing a solution to the illegal North Korean weapons programmes.” But Kurt Campbell, who served as the US’s senior diplomat dealing with Asia during Barack Obama’s first term as president, warned that Trump’s rhetoric lacked credibility.
(13) A lethal confusion, I suspect, created by one man with the ironclad confidence of a Lord Reith, a cocky newcomer who inherits what he suspects is a shambles, and a politician close to panic at the thought she might be the next to go.
(14) Opposition groups are likely to see the high-profile flight from Syria as a propaganda coup and evidence that ironclad allegiances in sensitive parts of the police state are starting to crumble.
(15) All this adds up to a salutary reminder that Miliband still has a mountain to climb in translating Labour's consistent but not massive opinion poll lead into something more ironclad and irresistible as 2015 nears.
(16) Trump, who has said his criticism was directed against US policymakers, not the Mexican people or its government, stated on Thursday that Univision would be defaulting on an ironclad contract if it doesn’t air the pageants.
(17) The fraudulence of the Copenhagen approach – "goals" for emission reductions, "offsets" that render ironclad goals almost meaningless, the ineffectual "cap-and-trade" mechanism – must be exposed.
(18) This "ironclad" system – operating outside statute, "but independent beyond a shadow of doubt" – could also appoint the first chairman, Letwin said.
(19) Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch: inside the billionaire bromance Read more At his Senate hearing last month, Hagerty, a key member of Trump’s transition team, stressed Washington’s “ironclad” commitment to its alliance with Japan, calling it “the cornerstone of regional peace and security” and “a platform for global cooperation”.
(20) Morrison returned from Port Moresby this week with no ironclad guarantee that the 1,300 detained on Manus would ever be allowed to settle in PNG.