(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were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them.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.
Sloop
Definition:
(n.) A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See Cutter, and Illustration in Appendix.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina has a populist president who is doing what all populists do: seeking an issue to divert public attention from her government's real problems, which are more to do with inflation and bondholders than anything a British brig-sloop did 180 years ago.
(2) The overwhelming majority of ships that go from Libya to Italy are wooden fishing sloops or inflatable dinghies.
(3) TV montage music for the season's highlights Sloop John B – the Beach Boys.