Frigates

Al had brought up a cruiser and three WarCroc frigates from the Orc fleet and had executed a linked attack. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It got six big patrol frigates from the Saint John Drydocks in the 1990s, and six more when New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna switched to support the Meech Lake Accord. ❋ Unknown (2002)

While a number of British war vessels were lying in Hampton Roads watching for certain French frigates which had taken refuge up ❋ Allen Johnson (1900)

The European Union has also authorized a force of between five and seven frigates, which is expected to arrive in the Gulf of Aden early ❋ Unknown (2008)

The frigates were the scouts, the cavalry, and, having found the enemy, they stayed with her and sent messages back down the long windy links of their chain. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- (2000)

Soon after we made the signal to call the frigates in ... ❋ Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 (1914)

July 23d, Nelson abandoned the attempt upon the fort, recalling the frigates; and, as the wind did not yet serve to approach the shore, he continued under sail during that day and the next. ❋ Mahan, A. T. (1897)

As the project grew, and the amount likely to be obtained became manifest, the purpose to which it should be devoted was determined to be the building of a frigate of thirty-two guns; one of the well-recognized, but smaller, classes under which the vessels called frigates were subdivided. ❋ Unknown (1877)

It should be explained to the outsider, perhaps even many professional readers now may not know, that the word was formerly used for a class of so-called frigates which intervened between the frigate-class proper and the sloop-of-war proper, and like all hybrids, such as the armored cruiser, shared more in the defects than in the virtues of either. ❋ Unknown (1877)

Afterwards vessels still called frigates, carrying 24 guns, were also ranked as post-ships. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

In 1748 a ship of 585 tons, to carry 28 guns, 9-pounders on the main-deck and 3-pounders on the quarter-deck, was built; and in 1757 five other vessels, also called frigates, to carry 28 guns, were constructed of fir instead of oak, of the same size; but one of them was captured by the French, and the others in about nine years were broken up as unserviceable. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

'Probably,' answered Warwick; 'for the two companies are to embark at the same time; and I only trust to some private interest, which I have prevailed upon my uncle to make for me, to procure leave to embark in whatever vessel is most convenient. – the captain of one of the frigates is my particular friend, and I shall probably get a birth with him instead of going in a transport.' ❋ Unknown (1793)

Eight anti-ship missiles, a deck-based helicopter, a wide array of sonar and anti-submarine equipment, a 100mm gun, and an impressive complement of close-in air-defense systems made experts place it among the frigates, which is a higher ranking. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Also worth noting that the US have removed all missile systems from their Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates - in other words 30% of the US Navys escort force has no missile system at all, and only a 76mm gun and helicopter as a weapons platform. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The repair of the frigates are a major part of the $40 million worth of annual repair work available to the private sector. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“[Ahoy] ladies [frigate] up [ahead]”. “[Frigate] up ahead”. ❋ Pixel_Gamer (2020)

"[Oh, no], not again!!! [Awww], frigate!" ❋ Fearman (2007)

person 1: damn [the printer] is [fucked again] person 2: no my friend, that [printer] is beyond being simply fucked, it is now totally frigated ❋ (2021)

----------------- 1. Two british frigates, the [HMS] [Ardent] and HMS Antelope, were sunk by Argentina during the [Falklands War] of 1982. ❋ Thaks (2006)

man1: Have you seen Sally from the women's basketball team? man2: Yeah bro she's hot, I love a good [heavy frigate] or man1: Hey I'm going to a party on the weekend and Sally's going to be there, I think she's hot for it too man2: Awesome dude, there really is nothing like [captaining] a heavy frigate ❋ Feretboy (2009)

"Dude, that guy splattered [pee on] my shoes at [the urinals]!" "Yeah, what a [freakin'] douche frigate!" ❋ General Lee A. Dumas (2013)

That [Percy], he is such [an ass] [frigate], that he once sucked a cock while it was in someone's ass. ❋ Lance Niggerdick Junior (2012)

My brother works in IT at [Yale] — during the day it seems like a friendly place, but if you saw their web [logs] at night — man, that place is a [boner frigate]. ❋ Jtrefgarne (2022)