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281 relations: Abukuma-class destroyer escort, Action of 13 January 1797, Active Phased Array Radar, Adhafer-class corvette, Aegis Combat System, Age of Sail, Almada, Ancient Greek, Andrew Lambert, Anti-aircraft warfare, Anti-ship missile, Anti-submarine warfare, Anti-Submarine Warfare Frigate (Koninklijke Marine), Argentina, Armored cruiser, Aster (missile family), Aubrey–Maturin series, Australia, Aviso, İzmit, Ballistic missile, Battle of the Downs, Battleship, Birkenhead, Blue-water navy, Boston, BrahMos, Brazilian Navy, Brisbane, Broadside (naval), Brown-water navy, Buenos Aires, Bung Tomo-class corvette, C. S. Forester, Canada, Captain-class frigate, Carron Company, Carronade, Casco-class cutter, China, Chinese frigate Ji'an (518), Chinese frigate Siping (544), Chinese frigate Xiamen (515), Chinese frigate Yingtan (531), Commonwealth of England, Copenhagen, Corvette, County of Holland, Cruise missile, Cruiser, ... Expand index (231 more) »
- Frigates
- Naval sailing ship types
- Ship designs of the Dutch Republic
Abukuma-class destroyer escort
The Abukuma-class destroyer escort (or frigate) (Abukumagatagoeikan) is the general-purpose destroyer escort of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
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Action of 13 January 1797
The action of 13 January 1797 (known by the French as the Naufrage du Droits de l'Homme; "shipwreck of the Droits de l'Homme") was a minor naval battle fought between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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Active Phased Array Radar
Active Phased Array Radar (APAR) is a shipborne active electronically scanned array multifunction 3D radar (MFR) developed and manufactured by Thales Nederland.
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Adhafer-class corvette
The Adhafer-class corvette is a type of stealth corvette belonging to the Algerian Navy.
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Aegis Combat System
The Aegis Combat System is an American integrated naval weapons system, which uses computers and radars to track and guide weapons to destroy enemy targets.
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Age of Sail
The Age of Sail is a period in European history that lasted at the latest from the mid-16th (or mid-15th) to the mid-19th centuries, in which the dominance of sailing ships in global trade and warfare culminated, particularly marked by the introduction of naval artillery, and ultimately reached its highest extent at the advent of the analogue Age of Steam.
Almada
Almada is a city and a municipality in Portugal, located on the southern margin of the Tagus River, on the opposite side of the river from Lisbon.
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
Andrew Lambert
Andrew David Lambert (born 31 December 1956) is a British naval historian, who since 2001 has been the Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies, King's College London.
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Anti-aircraft warfare
Anti-aircraft warfare is the counter to aerial warfare and it includes "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action" (NATO's definition).
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Anti-ship missile
An anti-ship missile (AShM or ASM) is a guided missile that is designed for use against ships and large boats.
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Anti-submarine warfare
Anti-submarine warfare (ASW, or in the older form A/S) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, submarines, or other platforms, to find, track, and deter, damage, or destroy enemy submarines.
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Anti-Submarine Warfare Frigate (Koninklijke Marine)
The Anti-Submarine Warfare Frigate (ASWF) is a project of the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN, Dutch: Koninklijke Marine) and Belgian Navy to replace the existing Multipurpose- or M-frigates.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
Armored cruiser
The armored cruiser was a type of warship of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Frigate and armored cruiser are ship types.
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Aster (missile family)
The Aster 15 and Aster 30 are a Franco-Italian family of all-weather, vertical launch surface-to-air missiles.
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Aubrey–Maturin series
The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by English author Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centring on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and intelligence agent.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Aviso
An aviso was originally a kind of dispatch boat or "advice boat", carrying orders before the development of effective remote communication.
İzmit
İzmit is a municipality and the capital district of Kocaeli Province, Turkey.
Ballistic missile
A ballistic missile (BM) is a type of missile that uses projectile motion to deliver warheads on a target.
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Battle of the Downs
The Battle of the Downs took place on 21 October 1639 (New Style), during the Eighty Years' War.
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Battleship
A battleship is a large, heavily armored warship with a main battery consisting of large-caliber guns, designed to serve as capital ships with the most intense firepower. Frigate and battleship are ship types.
Birkenhead
Birkenhead is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England; historically, it was part of Cheshire until 1974.
Blue-water navy
A blue-water navy is a maritime force capable of operating globally, essentially across the deep waters of open oceans.
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Boston
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
BrahMos
The BrahMos (also designated as PJ-10).
Brazilian Navy
The Brazilian Navy (Navy of Brazil) is the naval service branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces, responsible for conducting naval operations. The navy was involved in Brazil's war of independence from Portugal. Most of Portugal's naval forces and bases in South America were transferred to the newly independent country.
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Brisbane
Brisbane (Meanjin) is the capital of the state of Queensland and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million.
Broadside (naval)
A broadside is the side of a ship, or more specifically the battery of cannon on one side of a warship or their coordinated fire in naval warfare, or a measurement of a warship's maximum simultaneous firepower which can be delivered upon a single target (because this concentration is usually obtained by firing a broadside).
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Brown-water navy
A brown-water navy or riverine navy, in the broadest sense, is a naval force capable of military operations in littoral zone waters.
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Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and primate city of Argentina.
Bung Tomo-class corvette
The Bung Tomo class is a class of three Indonesian multi-role corvettes or 'multi-role light frigate' (MRLF) by Indonesia.
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C. S. Forester
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Captain-class frigate
The Captain class was the designation given to 78 frigates of the Royal Navy, constructed in the United States, launched in 1942–1943 and delivered to the United Kingdom under the provisions of the Lend-Lease agreement.
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Carron Company
The Carron Company was an ironworks established in 1759 on the banks of the River Carron near Falkirk, in Stirlingshire, Scotland.
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Carronade
A carronade is a short, smoothbore, cast-iron cannon which was used by the Royal Navy.
Casco-class cutter
The Casco class was a large class of United States Coast Guard cutters in commission from the late 1940s through the late 1980s.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Chinese frigate Ji'an (518)
Ji'an (518) was a Type 053H frigate of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
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Chinese frigate Siping (544)
Siping (519) was a Type 053H frigate of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
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Chinese frigate Xiamen (515)
Xiamen (515) was a Type 053 frigate of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
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Chinese frigate Yingtan (531)
Yingtan (531) was the sole Type 053K (NATO reporting name: Jiangdong) frigate constructed by the People's Republic of China for the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN).
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Commonwealth of England
The Commonwealth was the political structure during the period from 1649 to 1660 when England and Wales, later along with Ireland and Scotland, were governed as a republic after the end of the Second English Civil War and the trial and execution of Charles I. The republic's existence was declared through "An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth", adopted by the Rump Parliament on 19 May 1649.
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Copenhagen
Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.
Corvette
A corvette is a small warship. Frigate and corvette are naval sailing ship types and ship types.
County of Holland
The County of Holland was a state of the Holy Roman Empire and from 1433 part of the Burgundian Netherlands, from 1482 part of the Habsburg Netherlands and from 1581 onward the leading province of the Dutch Republic, of which it remained a part until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.
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Cruise missile
A cruise missile is an unmanned self-propelled guided vehicle that sustains flight through aerodynamic lift for most of its flight path and whose primary mission is to place an ordnance or special payload on a target.
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Cruiser
A cruiser is a type of warship. Frigate and cruiser are ship types.
Dandong
Dandong (lit. "Red East"), formerly known as Andong, is a coastal prefecture-level city in southeastern Liaoning province, in the northeastern region of People's Republic of China.
Defence and intervention frigate
The defence and intervention frigate or FDI, also known as the Frégate de Taille Intermédiaire or FTI, is a class of French frigates.
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Den Helder
Den Helder is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.
Denmark
Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.
Depth charge
A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon designed to destroy submarines by detonating in the water near the target and subjecting it to a destructive hydraulic shock.
Destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats. Frigate and destroyer are ship types.
Destroyer escort
Destroyer escort (DE) was the United States Navy mid-20th-century classification for a warship designed with the endurance necessary to escort mid-ocean convoys of merchant marine ships. Frigate and Destroyer escort are ship types.
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Destroyer leader
Destroyer leader (DL) was the United States Navy designation for large destroyers from 9 February 1951 through the early years of the Cold War. Frigate and destroyer leader are ship types.
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Dinghy
A dinghy is a type of small boat, often carried or towed by a larger vessel for use as a tender.
Dom Fernando II e Glória
Dom Fernando II e Glória is a wooden-hulled, 50-gun frigate of the Portuguese Navy.
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Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north.
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Douglas Reeman
Douglas Edward Reeman (15 October 1924 – 23 January 2017), who also used the pseudonym Alexander Kent, was a British author who wrote many historical novels about the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars.
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Drive shaft
A drive shaft, driveshaft, driving shaft, tailshaft (Australian English), propeller shaft (prop shaft), or Cardan shaft (after Girolamo Cardano) is a component for transmitting mechanical power, torque, and rotation, usually used to connect other components of a drivetrain that cannot be connected directly because of distance or the need to allow for relative movement between them.
Dundee
Dundee (Dundee; Dùn Dè or Dùn Dèagh) is the fourth-largest city in Scotland.
Dunkirkers
During the Dutch Revolt (1568–1648), the Dunkirkers or Dunkirk Privateers were commerce raiders in the service of the Spanish monarchy and later the Kingdom of France.
Dutch Republic
The United Provinces of the Netherlands, officially the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) and commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.
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Ebeltoft
Ebeltoft is an old port town on the central east coast of Denmark with a population of 7,211 (1 January 2024).
Eighty Years' War
The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt (Nederlandse Opstand) (c. 1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government.
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EML Admiral Pitka
EML Admiral Pitka (A230) was a Beskytteren-class ocean patrol vessel and former flagship of the Estonian Navy, belonging to the Mineships Division.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Esashi, Hokkaido (Hiyama)
is a town in Hiyama Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
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Escort destroyer
An escort destroyer was a small warship built to full naval standards which was optimised for air-defence and anti-submarine duties in wartime, but which retained many of the capabilities of a traditional fleet destroyer, enabling it to conduct operations in conjunction with main fleet units as well as carrying out convoy escort and ASW patrols.
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Espora-class corvette
The Espora-class corvettes are six warships of the Argentine Navy built in Argentina to the German MEKO 140A16 design, this in turn being based on the Portuguese project. The first entered service in 1985 but accidents and lack of funds meant the last was not completed until 2004. The ships currently form the 2nd Corvette Division of the Argentine Navy and their home port is the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base.
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Eurosam
Eurosam GIE is a European manufacturer of anti-air missiles.
Exocet
The Exocet is a French-built anti-ship missile whose various versions can be launched from surface vessels, submarines, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
F126 frigate
F126 or Niedersachsen-class frigate (Fregatte 126) is a planned German frigate class intended to replace the F123 s in the German Navy. The ships are to be the largest surface warships to join the German Navy since World War II. The first ship, Niedersachsen, is planned to be commissioned in 2028, with Saarland, Bremen, and Thüringen to follow.
Fall of Saigon
The fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975.
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Fifth-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system of six "ratings" based on size and firepower.
Fighter aircraft
Fighter aircraft (early on also pursuit aircraft) are military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat.
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First Sumatran expedition
The First Sumatran expedition, which featured the Battle of Quallah Battoo (Aceh: Kuala Batèë, Indonesian: Kuala Batu) in 1832, was a punitive expedition by the United States Navy against the village of Kuala Batee, presently a subdistrict in Southwest Aceh Regency.
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Flagship
A flagship is a vessel used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships, characteristically a flag officer entitled by custom to fly a distinguishing flag. Frigate and flagship are ship types.
Flanders
Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium.
Forecastle
The forecastle (contracted as fo'c'sle or fo'c's'le) is the upper deck of a sailing ship forward of the foremast, or, historically, the forward part of a ship with the sailors' living quarters.
Fredrik Henrik af Chapman
Fredrik Henrik af Chapman (9 September 1721 in Gothenburg – 19 August 1808) was a Swedish shipbuilder, scientist and officer in the Swedish navy.
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FREMM multipurpose frigate
The FREMM (Frégate Européenne Multi-Mission; Fregata Europea Multi-Missione), which stands for "European multi-purpose frigate", is a Franco-Italian family of multi-purpose frigates designed by Naval Group and Fincantieri.
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French Navy
The French Navy (lit), informally La Royale, is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the four military service branches of France.
Frigate 36
The Frigate 36 is a Canadian sailboat, that was designed by C&C Design and first built in 1968.
Frigate captain
Frigate captain is a naval rank in the naval forces of several countries.
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Frigatebird
Frigatebirds are a family of seabirds called Fregatidae which are found across all tropical and subtropical oceans.
Full-rigged ship
A full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with a sail plan of three or more masts, all of them square-rigged.
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Future of the French Navy
The French Navy's modernization, as is the case with the Army and Air and Space Force, is pursued on the basis of successive 7-year Military Planning Laws (Loi de Programmation Militaire or LPM).
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Galley
A galley was a type of ship which relied mostly on oars for propulsion that was used for warfare, trade, and piracy mostly in the seas surrounding Europe. Frigate and galley are ship types.
General Board of the United States Navy
The General Board of the United States Navy was an advisory body of the United States Navy, somewhat akin to a naval general staff and somewhat not.
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German Navy
The German Navy is part of the unified (Federal Defense), the German Armed Forces.
German reunification
German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single full sovereign state, which took place between 9 November 1989 and 15 March 1991.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette, was a French nobleman and military officer who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, in the American Revolutionary War.
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Glasgow
Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.
Goalkeeper CIWS
The Goalkeeper CIWS is a Dutch close-in weapon system (CIWS) introduced in 1979.
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Green-water navy
A green-water navy is a maritime force that is capable of operating in its state's littoral zones and has limited competency to operate in the surrounding marginal seas.
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Gremyashchiy-class corvette
The Gremyashchiy class (Thunderous), Russian designation Project 20385, is an update of the s of the Russian Navy at a cost of 150 million $. This follow-on project was designed by the Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau in Saint Petersburg.
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Gun deck
The term gun deck used to refer to a deck aboard a ship that was primarily used for the mounting of cannon to be fired in broadsides.
Gun port
A gunport is an opening in the side of the hull of a ship, above the waterline, which allows the muzzle of artillery pieces mounted on the gun deck to fire outside.
Gunboat
A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies. Frigate and gunboat are ship types.
Habsburg Spain
Habsburg Spain refers to Spain and the Hispanic Monarchy, also known as the Catholic Monarchy, in the period from 1516 to 1700 when it was ruled by kings from the House of Habsburg.
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Hamilton-class cutter
The Hamilton-class cutter was the largest class of vessel in the United States Coast Guard until replaced by the Legend-class cutter, aside from the.
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Hangar
A hangar is a building or structure designed to hold aircraft or spacecraft.
Hartlepool
Hartlepool is a seaside and port town in County Durham, England.
Hedgehog (weapon)
The Hedgehog (also known as an Anti-Submarine Projector) was a forward-throwing anti-submarine weapon that was used primarily during the Second World War.
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Helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors.
Helipad
A helipad is a landing area or platform for helicopters and powered lift aircraft.
HMCS Carlplace
HMCS Carlplace was a that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War.
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HMS Surprise (replica ship)
HMS Surprise is a modern tall ship built at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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HMS Whimbrel (U29)
HMS Whimbrel is the last surviving Royal Navy warship to have been present at the Surrender of Japan in World War II.
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Hoorn
Hoorn is a city and municipality in the northwest of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.
Horatio Hornblower
Horatio Hornblower is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, the protagonist of a series of novels and stories by C. S. Forester.
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Hornblower (TV series)
Hornblower is a series of British historical fiction war television films based on three of C. S. Forester's ten novels about the fictional character Horatio Hornblower, a Royal Navy officer during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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Horten (town)
is a town in Horten Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway.
HTMS Phutthayotfa Chulalok
HTMS Phutthayotfa Chulalok (FFG-461) (เรือหลวงพุทธยอดฟ้าจุฬาโลก) is the former,. The ship is named after the first king of the Chakri Dynasty, King Phutthayotfa Chulaok the Great.
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Hull (watercraft)
A hull is the watertight body of a ship, boat, submarine, or flying boat.
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Hull classification symbol
The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) use a hull classification symbol (sometimes called hull code or hull number) to identify their ships by type and by individual ship within a type.
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Hull speed
Hull speed or displacement speed is the speed at which the wavelength of a vessel's bow wave is equal to the waterline length of the vessel.
Ikara (missile)
The Ikara missile was an Australian ship-launched anti-submarine missile, named after an Australian Aboriginal word for "throwing stick".
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Iraqi frigate Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun (507) (ابن خلدون) was a training frigate of the Iraqi Navy that was built in SFR Yugoslavia.
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Ironclad warship
An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship protected by steel or iron armor constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Joshua Humphreys
Joshua Humphreys (June 17, 1751 – January 12, 1838) was an American ship builder and naval architect.
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KD Rahmat
KD (Kapal Diraja.
Knox-class frigate
The 46 Knox-class frigates were the largest, last, and most numerous of the US Navy's second-generation anti-submarine warfare (ASW) escorts.
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Kotor-class frigate
The Kotor class (Yugoslav designation: Veliki Patrolni Brod (VPBR)) are a pair of light frigates built for the Yugoslav Navy during the 1980s at the Kraljevica Shipyard in SR Croatia.
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Language change
Language change is the process of alteration in the features of a single language, or of languages in general, across a period of time.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Leopard-class frigate
The Type 41 or Leopard class were a class of anti-aircraft defence frigates built for the Royal Navy (4 ships) and Indian Navy (3 ships) in the 1950s.
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Light cruiser
A light cruiser is a type of small or medium-sized warship.
Limbo (weapon)
Limbo, or Anti Submarine Mortar Mark 10 (A/S Mk.10), was the final development of the forward-throwing anti-submarine weapon Squid, designed during the Second World War and was developed by the Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment in the 1950s.
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Line of battle
The line of battle is a tactic in naval warfare in which a fleet of ships forms a line end to end.
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List of escorteurs of France
The escorteurs of the French Navy were light naval warships used for convoy protection during and after the Second World War.
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List of frigate classes
This list of frigate classes includes all post–World War II frigate classes listed alphabetically.
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List of frigate classes by country
The list of frigates by country includes all modern (post–1940) frigates organized by the country of which they were in service.
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List of frigates of World War II
This is a list of frigates of World War II.
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Littoral combat ship
A littoral combat ship (LCS) is either of two classes of relatively small surface vessels designed for near-shore operations by the United States Navy. Frigate and littoral combat ship are ship types.
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Littoral zone
The littoral zone, also called litoral or nearshore, is the part of a sea, lake, or river that is close to the shore.
Live oak
Live oak or evergreen oak is any of a number of oaks in several different sections of the genus Quercus that share the characteristic of evergreen foliage.
London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Lucknow
Lucknow is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division.
Lumut, Perak
Lumut is a coastal town and mukim in Manjung District, Perak, Malaysia, situated about southwest of the state capital city of Ipoh, north from the town of Sitiawan.
Magnetic anomaly detector
A magnetic anomaly detector (MAD) is an instrument used to detect minute variations in the Earth's magnetic field.
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Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
Marines
Marines (or naval infantry) are soldiers who primarily operate in littoral zones, both on land and at sea.
Mark 41 Vertical Launching System
The Mark 41 Vertical Launching System (Mk 41 VLS) is a shipborne missile canister launching system which provides a rapid-fire launch capability against hostile threats.
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 British epic period war-drama film co-written, produced and directed by Peter Weir, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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MEKO 200
The MEKO 200 is a frigate design by the Blohm + Voss shipyard of Germany, as part of the MEKO family of warships.
MILGEM project
MILGEM project (Turkish:Milli Gemi Projesi, English: National Ship Project) is a national warship program of the Republic of Turkey.
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Montenegro
Montenegro is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the Balkan Peninsula.
Moroccan frigate Mohammed VI
Mohammed VI (701) (محمد السادس) is a FREMM multipurpose frigate of the Royal Moroccan Navy.
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Moscow
Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.
Museum ship
A museum ship, also called a memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public for educational or memorial purposes. Frigate and museum ship are ship types.
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
Myanmar Navy
The Myanmar Navy (တပ်မတော် (ရေ)) is the naval warfare branch of the armed forces of Myanmar.
Nakhon Nayok
Nakhon Nayok City is a capital of Nakhon Nayok province in the central region of Thailand.
Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.
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Naval Act of 1794
The Act to Provide a Naval Armament (Sess. 1, ch. 12), also known as the Naval Act of 1794, or simply, the Naval Act, was passed by the 3rd United States Congress on March 27, 1794, and signed into law by President George Washington.
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Naval flag signalling
Naval flag signalling covers various forms of flag signalling, such as semaphore or flaghoist, used by various navies; distinguished from maritime flag signalling by merchant or other non-naval vessels or flags used for identification.
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Naval Strike Missile
The Naval Strike Missile (NSM) is an anti-ship and land-attack missile developed by the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA).
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Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
NNS Aradu
NNS Aradu (F89) (meaning "thunder" in Hausa) is a Nigerian Navy frigate.
NNS Obuma
NNS Obuma, formerly NNS Nigeria, was a Nigerian frigate which served as the flagship of the Nigerian Navy from 1965 to 1982.
Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
Ocean escort
Ocean escort was a type of United States Navy warship. Frigate and Ocean escort are ship types.
Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
The Oliver Hazard Perry class is a class of guided-missile frigates named after U.S. Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, a commander noted for his role in the Battle of Lake Erie.
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Original six frigates of the United States Navy
The United States Congress authorized the original six frigates of the United States Navy with the Naval Act of 1794 on March 27, 1794, at a total cost of $688,888.82 (equivalent to $19,833,259.52 in 2024).
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Paddle steamer
A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. Frigate and paddle steamer are ship types.
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Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and centred on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen Maturin.
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Penguin (missile)
The Penguin anti-ship missile, designated AGM-119 by the U.S. military, is a Norwegian passive IR seeker-based short-to-medium range anti-ship guided missile, designed for naval use.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth is a port city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England.
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.
Post ship
Post ship was a designation used in the Royal Navy during the second half of the 18th century and the Napoleonic Wars to describe a sixth-rate ship (see rating system of the Royal Navy) that was smaller than a frigate (in practice, carrying fewer than 28 guns), but by virtue of being a rated ship (with at least 20 guns), had to have as its captain a post captain rather than a lieutenant or commander.
Privateer
A privateer is a private person or vessel which engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.
Prize money
Prize money refers in particular to naval prize money, usually arising in naval warfare, but also in other circumstances.
Propeller
A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon a working fluid such as water or air.
Protected cruiser
Protected cruisers, a type of cruising warship of the late 19th century, gained their description because an armoured deck offered protection for vital machine-spaces from fragments caused by shells exploding above them. Frigate and Protected cruiser are ship types.
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Qingdao
Qingdao is a prefecture-level city in eastern Shandong Province of China.
Quarterdeck
The quarterdeck is a raised deck behind the main mast of a sailing ship.
Radar cross section
Radar cross-section (RCS), denoted σ, also called radar signature, is a measure of how detectable an object is by radar.
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Radar picket
A radar picket is a radar-equipped station, ship, submarine, aircraft, or vehicle used to increase the radar detection range around a nation or military (including naval) force to protect it from surprise attack, typically air attack, or from criminal activities such as smuggling.
Rating system of the Royal Navy
The rating system of the Royal Navy and its predecessors was used by the Royal Navy between the beginning of the 17th century and the middle of the 19th century to categorise sailing warships, initially classing them according to their assigned complement of men, and later according to the number of their carriage-mounted guns.
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Rayong province
Rayong province (ระยอง) is one of seventy-six provinces (changwat) within Thailand, and lies in eastern Thailand.
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Razee
A razee or razée is a sailing ship that has been cut down (razeed) to reduce the number of decks. Frigate and razee are naval sailing ship types.
Reserve fleet
A reserve fleet is a collection of naval vessels of all types that are fully equipped for service but are not currently needed; they are partially or fully decommissioned.
RIM-162 ESSM
The RIM-162 Evolved SeaSparrow Missile (ESSM) is a development of the RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missile used to protect ships from attacking missiles and aircraft.
RIM-2 Terrier
The Convair RIM-2 Terrier was a two-stage medium-range naval surface-to-air missile (SAM), among the earliest SAMs to equip United States Navy ships.
RIM-66 Standard
The RIM-66 Standard MR (SM-1MR/SM-2MR) is a medium-range surface-to-air missile (SAM), with a secondary role as an anti-ship missile, developed for the United States Navy (USN).
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RIM-67 Standard
The RIM-67 Standard ER (SM-1ER/SM-2ER) is an extended range surface-to-air missile (SAM) with a secondary anti-ship capability, originally developed for the United States Navy (USN).
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River-class destroyer (2030s)
The River-class destroyer, formerly the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC), and Single Class Surface Combatant Project is the procurement project that will replace the and warships with up to 15 new ships beginning in the early 2030s as part of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy.
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ROKS Seoul (FF-952)
ROKS Seoul (FF-952) is the second ship of the ''Ulsan''-class frigate in the Republic of Korea Navy.
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ROKS Ulsan (FF-951)
ROKS Ulsan (FF-951) is the lead ship of the ''Ulsan''-class frigate in the Republic of Korea Navy.
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Royal Canadian Navy
The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN; Marine royale canadienne, MRC) is the naval force of Canada.
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Royal Danish Navy
The Royal Danish Navy (Søværnet) is the sea-based branch of the Danish Armed Forces force.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
Royal Netherlands Navy
The Royal Netherlands Navy (Koninklijke Marine) is the maritime service branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces.
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RUR-5 ASROC
The RUR-5 ASROC (for "Anti-Submarine Rocket") is an all-weather, all sea-conditions anti-submarine missile system.
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.
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Salisbury-class frigate
The Type 61 Salisbury class was a class of the Royal Navy aircraft direction (AD) frigate, built in the 1950s.
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San Diego
San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.
Sattahip district
Sattahip (สัตหีบ) is a district (amphoe) in Chonburi province, Thailand.
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Scantling
Scantling is a measurement of prescribed size, dimensions, or cross sectional areas.
Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Scuttling
A ship is scuttled when its crew deliberately sinks it, typically by opening holes in its hull.
Sea Skua
The Sea Skua is a British lightweight short-range air-to-surface missile (ASM) designed for use from helicopters against ships.
Sea Wolf (missile)
Sea Wolf is a naval surface-to-air missile system designed and built by BAC, later to become British Aerospace (BAe) Dynamics, and now MBDA.
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Search and rescue
Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger.
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Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea.
Ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. Frigate and ship of the line are naval sailing ship types.
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Sigma-class design
The SIGMA class is a Dutch-built family of modular naval vessels, of either corvette or frigate size, designed by Damen Group.
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Sixth-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a sixth-rate was the designation for small warships mounting between 20 and 28 carriage-mounted guns on a single deck, sometimes with smaller guns on the upper works and sometimes without.
Sloop-of-war
During the 18th and 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship of the British Royal Navy with a single gun deck that carried up to 18 guns. Frigate and sloop-of-war are naval sailing ship types.
SMART-L
SMART-L (Signaal Multibeam Acquisition Radar for Tracking, L band) is a long-range naval search radar introduced in 2002 by Thales Nederland, formerly Hollandse Signaalapparaten (Signaal).
Sonar
Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, measure distances (ranging), communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.
Sonobuoy
A sonobuoy (a portmanteau of sonar and buoy) is a small expendable sonar buoy dropped from aircraft or ships for anti-submarine warfare or underwater acoustic research.
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
Southern Netherlands
The Southern Netherlands, also called the Catholic Netherlands, were the parts of the Low Countries belonging to the Holy Roman Empire which were at first largely controlled by Habsburg Spain (Spanish Netherlands, 1556–1714) and later by the Austrian Habsburgs (Austrian Netherlands, 1714–1794) until occupied and annexed by Revolutionary France (1794–1815).
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Soviet frigate Druzhny
Druzhny (Дружный, "Friendly") was a Project 1135 Burevestnik-class Large Anti-Submarine Ship (Большой Противолодочный Корабль, BPK) or Krivak-class frigate.
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Spanish Navy
The Spanish Navy or officially, the Armada, is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces and one of the oldest active naval forces in the world.
Square rig
Square rig is a generic type of sail and rigging arrangement in which the primary driving sails are carried on horizontal spars which are perpendicular, or square, to the keel of the vessel and to the masts.
Stealth technology
Stealth technology, also termed low observable technology (LO technology), is a sub-discipline of military tactics and passive and active electronic countermeasures, which covers a range of methods used to make personnel, aircraft, ships, submarines, missiles, satellites, and ground vehicles less visible (ideally invisible) to radar, infrared, sonar and other detection methods.
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Steam frigate
Steam frigates (including screw frigates) and the smaller steam corvettes, steam sloops, steam gunboats and steam schooners, were steam-powered warships that were not meant to stand in the line of battle. Frigate and steam frigate are ship types.
Steregushchiy-class corvette
The Steregushchiy class (Guarding), Russian designation Project 20380, is a class of corvettes being built for the Russian Navy.
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Surface-to-air missile
A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched from the ground or the sea to destroy aircraft or other missiles.
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Taizhou, Jiangsu
Taizhou is a city in Jiangsu in eastern China.
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Talwar-class frigate
The Talwar-class frigates or Project 11356 are a class of stealth guided missile frigates designed and built by Russia for the Indian Navy. The Talwar-class guided missile frigates are the improved versions of the Krivak III-class (Project 1135) frigates used by the Russian Coast Guard. The design has been further developed as the for the Russian Navy.
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Tamandaré-class frigate
The Tamandaré class is a class of future stealth frigates for the Brazilian Navy, based on the MEKO family of warships.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
Thaon di Revel-class offshore patrol vessel
The Thaon di Revel class (also known as PPA for Pattugliatore Polivalente d'Altura - Multipurpose Offshore Patrol Vessel) is a class of multipurpose offshore ships built by Fincantieri for the Italian Navy.
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The Bolitho novels
The Bolitho novels are a series of nautical war novels written by British author Douglas Reeman (using the pseudonym Alexander Kent).
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Thetis-class patrol vessel
The Thetis-class ocean patrol vessels or ocean patrol frigates, also called Stanflex 3000, is a class of large patrol vessels built for the Royal Danish Navy.
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Third-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker).
Torpedo
A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, and with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target.
Towed array sonar
A towed array sonar is a system of hydrophones towed behind a submarine or a surface ship on a cable.
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Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
Two-decker
A two-decker is a sail warship which carried her guns on two fully armed decks. Frigate and two-decker are naval sailing ship types.
Type 053 frigate
The Type 053 is a family of Chinese frigates that served with the People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force, and a small number of foreign navies.
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Type 053H2G frigate
The Type 053H2G (NATO codename Jiangwei I) were Chinese frigates that entered service with the People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force in the 1990s.
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Type 053H3 frigate
The Type 053H3 (NATO reporting name: Jiangwei II) is a class of Chinese frigates that entered service with the People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force in the 1990s and 2000s.
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Type 054 frigate
The Type 054 (NATO Codename Jiangkai I) is a class of Chinese multi-role frigates that were commissioned in the People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force in 2005.
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Type 054A frigate
The Type 054A (NATO/OSD Jiangkai II) is a class of guided-missile frigate from the People's Republic of China.
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Type 22 frigate
The Type 22 frigate also known as the Broadsword class was a class of frigates built for the British Royal Navy.
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Type 23 frigate
The Type 23 frigate or Duke class is a class of frigates built for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy.
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Type 26 frigate
The Type 26 frigate, also known as City-class frigate, is a class of frigates being built for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy, with variants also being built for the Australian and Canadian navies.
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Type 31 frigate
The Type 31 frigate, also known as the Inspiration class, and formerly known as the Type 31e frigate or General Purpose Frigate (GPF), is a class of five frigates being built for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy, with variants also being built for the Indonesian and Polish navies.
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Type 32 frigate
The Type 32 frigate is a frigate currently in development in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy.
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Type XXI submarine
Type XXI submarines were a class of German diesel–electric Elektroboot (German: "electric boat") submarines designed during the Second World War.
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Ukrainian frigate Hetman Sahaidachny
Hetman Sahaidachny (U130/F130) (Гетьман Сагайдачний) was a frigate of the Ukrainian Navy that was originally built at the Kerch Shipyard as a Project 11351 patrol ship of the Nerey / Krivak III / ''Menzhinskiy'' class.
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Ulsan
Ulsan, officially the Ulsan Metropolitan City, is South Korea's seventh-largest metropolitan city and the eighth-largest city overall, with a population of over 1.1 million inhabitants.
Underway replenishment
Underway replenishment (UNREP) (U.S. Navy) or replenishment at sea (RAS) (North Atlantic Treaty Organization/Commonwealth of Nations) is a method of transferring fuel, munitions, and stores from one ship to another while under way.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
United States Naval Institute
The United States Naval Institute (USNI) is a private non-profit military association that offers independent, nonpartisan forums for debate of national security issues.
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United States naval reactors
United States naval reactors are nuclear reactors used by the United States Navy aboard certain ships to generate the steam used to produce power for propulsion, electric power, catapulting airplanes in aircraft carriers, and a few more minor uses.
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United States Navy 1975 ship reclassification
The United States Navy reclassified many of its surface vessels in 1975, changing terminology and hull classification symbols for cruisers, frigates, and ocean escorts.
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Unprotected cruiser
An unprotected cruiser was a type of naval warship that was in use during the early 1870s Victorian or pre-dreadnought era (about 1880 to 1905). Frigate and unprotected cruiser are ship types.
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USS Orca (AVP-49)
The second USS Orca (AVP-49) was a United States Navy seaplane tender in commission from 1944 to 1947 and from 1951 to 1960.
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USS Ouellet
USS Ouellet (FF-1077) was a of the United States Navy.
Vertical launching system
A vertical launching system (VLS) is an advanced system for holding and firing missiles on mobile naval platforms, such as surface ships and submarines.
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Vietnam People's Navy
The Vietnam People's Navy (VPN; Hải quân nhân dân Việt Nam), internally the Naval Service, also known as the Vietnamese People's Navy or simply Vietnam/Vietnamese Navy, is the naval branch of the Vietnam People's Army and is responsible for the protection of the country's national waters, islands, and interests of the maritime economy, as well as for the co-ordination of maritime police, customs service and the border defence force.
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Visby-class destroyer
The Visby class was a Swedish World War II destroyer class.
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Volodymyr Velykyi-class frigate
The Volodymyr Velykyi class or Project 58250 is a planned class of frigates (previously envisioned as multipurpose corvettes) ordered by the Ukrainian Navy.
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America.
War of the Austrian Succession
The War of the Austrian Succession was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748, primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
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Warship
A warship or combatant ship is a ship that is built and primarily intended for naval warfare.
Waterline
The waterline is the line where the hull of a ship meets the surface of the water.
Westport, Connecticut
Westport is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, along the Long Island Sound within Connecticut's Gold Coast.
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Whitby-class frigate
The Type 12 or Whitby-class frigates were a six-ship class of anti-submarine frigates of the Royal Navy, which entered service late in the 1950s.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Wrought iron
Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon content (less than 0.05%) in contrast to that of cast iron (2.1% to 4.5%).
Wuxue
Wuxue, formerly Guangji County (Postal Romanization: Kwangtsi), is a county-level city on the north shore of the Yangtze River in eastern Hubei province, People's Republic of China.
Xingguo County
Xingguo County is a county in south central Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China.
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Yangon
Yangon (ရန်ကုန်), formerly romanized as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma).
24-pounder long gun
The 24-pounder long gun was a heavy calibre piece of artillery mounted on warships of the Age of Sail.
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See also
Frigates
- Álvaro de Bazán-class frigate
- ARM Montezuma
- Duc du Maine (slave ship)
- Frigate
- HMAS Flinders (FFG)
- HMAS Hunter
- HMAS Tasman
- Incheon-class frigate
- Spanish frigate Álvaro de Bazán
- Spanish frigate Almirante Juan de Borbón
- Spanish frigate Blas de Lezo (F103)
- Spanish frigate Cristóbal Colón
- Spanish frigate Méndez Núñez
- Valour-class frigate
Naval sailing ship types
- 64-gun ship
- Bomb vessel
- Corvette
- Crommesteven
- Fire ship
- Frigate
- Galleass
- Garay (ship)
- Ghurab
- Karakoa
- Karve (ship)
- Kondura (ship)
- Lancang (ship)
- Lancaran (ship)
- Lanong
- Longship
- Man-of-war
- Panokseon
- Penjajap
- Pink (ship)
- Race-built galleon
- Razee
- Schooner
- Seventy-four (ship)
- Ship of the line
- Sloop-of-war
- Snow (ship)
- Square-rigged caravel
- Three-decker
- Two-decker
Ship designs of the Dutch Republic
- Crommesteven
- Fluyt
- Flyboat
- Frigate
- Herring buss
- Schooner
- Yacht
References
Also known as Anti-submarine frigate, Armored frigate, Armoured frigate, Demi-batterie, FFGHM, Fast frigate, Frigate (sail), Frigate (ship), Frigates, Guided Missile Frigate, Guided-missile frigate, Heavy frigate, Large anti-submarine ship, Missile Frigate, Patrol frigate, Sailing frigate, Super-heavy frigate.
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