(1) The Royal Navy group, which will include a submarine, a frigate , a destroyer and two support vessels, will set out from Portsmouth on Saturday.

(2) The classic sailing frigate was a fast and powerful warship, and was one of the most successful and charismatic ship designs of the age.

(3) In the days of the old sailing frigates , this was the announcement of an impending attack!

(4) The size of the active fleet is also being steadily cut, with just 32 frigates and destroyers in service.

(5) The Seahawk is operational on US Navy frigates , destroyers and guided missile cruisers.

(6) Predominantly it was the destroyers and frigates of the Navy that served.

(7) In March 2004, the Royal Netherlands Navy signed a contract for the transfer of two M-Class frigates to the Chilean Navy.

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(9) Hence only sixteen frigates and two support ships - Fort Victoria and Fort George - were constructed.

(10) Between six and ten ships - usually destroyers, frigates and tankers - are attached to the Force for up to eight months.

(11) Cruisers, destroyers, and frigates are collectively referred to as surface combatants.

(12) By 1780 there were 86 frigates and 79 ships of the line in French service, and the annual cost of the navy almost quadrupled between 1776 and 1783.

(13) Four different frigates and destroyers, as well as seven auxiliaries, had supported the operation.

(14) By 2020, the Navy will have no frigates left, and all its destroyers will be large and expensive.

(15) The troop carrying convoy would then sail from southern English ports protected by an escort of frigates and corvettes.

(16) For example, say you are a commander in charge of a battle group consisting of three destroyers and six assault frigates .

(17) At sea, he served in a battleship, an aircraft carrier, in cruisers, destroyers, frigates , and a minesweeper.

(18) It would be three frigates against one destroyer.

(19) Other vessels included a Ticonderoga class cruiser, Arleigh Burke class destroyers, guided missile frigates and two Los Angeles class nuclear submarines.

(20) Senator Hill said that while the focus of the maritime campaign had shifted to carrier air operations, there was still a requirement for frigates to conduct some escort and patrol duties.