Class of warships

Usage examples of frigates.

They proved to be three forty-four gun frigates, with a corvette of twenty-four and a brig of twelve.

He came near enough one of the frigates to engage her, but at great disadvantage, the Frenchman maneuvering well and sailing greatly better.

The French finding themselves unable to maintain their post sunk one of their frigates, burnt another, and retreated to Bastia.

Toulon of six sail of the line, two frigates, and two cutters from Brest, gave the French a superiority which, had they known how to use it, would materially have endangered the British Mediterranean fleet.

Nelson now proceeded to his station with eight sail of frigates under his command.

The next day men were publicly enlisted in that city for the French army: 700 men were embarked, with 7000 stand of arms, on board the frigates and other vessels, who were to land between Voltri and Savona.

Spanish squadron of two ships of the line and two frigates came in sight.

He had served on shore with the army four months, and commanded the batteries at the sieges of Basti and Calvi: he had assisted at the capture of seven sail of the line, six frigates, four corvettes, and eleven privateers: taken and destroyed near fifty sail of merchant vessels, and actually been engaged against the enemy upwards of a hundred and twenty times, in which service he had lost his right eye and right arm, and been severely wounded and bruised in his body.

The armament at Toulon consisted of thirteen ships of the line, seven forty-gun frigates, with twenty-four smaller vessels of war, and nearly 200 transports.

Unfortunately, the frigates had been separated from him in the tempest and had not been able to rejoin: they sought him unsuccessfully in the Bay of Naples, where they obtained no tidings of his course: and he sailed without them.

The comparative smallness of his force made it necessary to sail in close order, and it covered a less space than it would have done if the frigates had been with him: the weather also was constantly hazy.

They had thirteen ships of the line and four frigates, carrying 1196 guns and 11,230 men.

Three of the frigates, whose presence would have been so essential a few weeks sooner, joined the squadron on the twelfth day after the action.

Are not two frigates and a corvette placed under my orders ready to fight the French, meet them where they may?

It was said to consist of twenty-four sail of the line, six frigates, and three sloops.