New Word List Word List. Save This Word! See synonyms for frigate on Thesaurus. May 5, The U. Navy's rendering of the newly awarded FFG X. By Tom Kington. About David B. More In Naval. Singapore tries to normalize military training schedule after pandemic disruption Efforts include an integrated sense-and-strike exercise in Idaho that saw the debut of an improved artificial intelligence-enabled C2 system. Pakistan receives new Chinese-made frigate.
Metallurgist admits faking steel-test results for Navy subs Elaine Marie Thomas pleaded guilty to fraud Monday. These " screw frigates ", built first of wood and later of iron, continued to perform the traditional role of the frigate until late in the 19th century.
From , armour was added to ships based on existing frigate and ship of the line designs. The additional weight of the armour on these first ironclad warships meant that they could have only one gun deck, and they were technically frigates, even though they were more powerful than existing ships-of-the-line and occupied the same strategic role. The phrase "armoured frigate" remained in use for some time to denote a sail-equipped, broadside-firing type of ironclad. After , the term "frigate" fell out of use.
Vessels with armoured sides were designated as " battleships " or " armoured cruisers ", while " protected cruisers " only possessed an armoured deck, and unarmoured vessels, including frigates and sloops, were classified as "unprotected cruisers".
Modern frigates are related to earlier frigates only by name. The term "frigate" was readopted during World War II by the Royal Navy to describe an anti-submarine escort vessel that was larger than a corvette , smaller than a destroyer , and were about equal in size and capability with the American destroyer escort. Anti-submarine escorts had previously been classified as sloops by the Royal Navy, and the Black Swan-class sloops of —45 were as large as the new types of frigate, and more heavily armed.
The frigate was introduced to remedy some of the shortcomings inherent in the corvette design: limited armament, a hull form not suited to open-ocean work, a single shaft which limited speed and maneuverability, and a lack of range. The frigate was designed and built to the same mercantile construction standards scantlings as the corvette, allowing manufacture by yards unused to warship construction.
The first frigates of the River class were essentially two sets of corvette machinery in one larger hull, armed with the latest Hedgehog anti-submarine weapon. The frigate possessed less offensive firepower and speed than a destroyer , but such qualities were not required for anti-submarine warfare. Submarines were slow while submerged, and ASDIC sets did not operate effectively at speeds of over 20 knots. Rather, the frigate was an austere and weatherly vessel suitable for mass-construction and fitted with the latest innovations in anti-submarine warfare.
As the frigate was intended purely for convoy duties, and not to deploy with the fleet, it had limited range and speed. The contemporaneous German Flottenbegleiter "fleet escorts" , also known as "F-Boats" were essentially frigates. Because of the Treaty of Versailles their displacement was officially limited to tons, although in reality they exceeded this by about tons.
F-boats had two stacks and two mm gun turrets. The design was flawed because of its narrow beam, sharp bow and unreliable high pressure steam turbines. F-boats were succeeded in operational duties by Type 35 and Elbing class torpedo boats. Flottenbegleiter remained in service as advanced training vessels. It was not until the Royal Navy's Bay class of that a British design classified as a "frigate" was produced for fleet use, although it still suffered from limited speed.
These anti-aircraft frigates, built on incomplete Loch-class frigate hulls, were similar to the United States Navy ' s destroyer escorts DE , although the latter had greater speed and offensive armament to better suit them to fleet deployments. The destroyer escort concept came from design studies by the General Board of the United States Navy in , as modified by requirements established by a British commission in [8] prior to the American entry into the war, for deep-water escorts.
The American-built destroyer escorts serving in the British Royal Navy were rated as Captain-class frigates. The U. Navy ' s two Canadian-built Asheville -class and 96 British-influenced, American-built Tacoma -class frigates that followed originally were classified as "patrol gunboats " PG in the U. Navy but on 15 April were all reclassified as patrol frigates PF. Moored on the Thames Embankment in London are two surviving Royal Navy anti-submarine sloops, which are the predecessors of the WW2 frigates:.
The introduction of the surface-to-air missile after the Second World War made relatively small ships effective for anti-aircraft warfare: the "guided missile frigate. From the s to the s, the United States Navy commissioned ships classed as guided missile frigates which were actually anti-aircraft warfare cruisers built on destroyer -style hulls. Some of these ships—the Bainbridge , Truxtun , California and Virginia classes—were nuclear-powered. These "frigates" were roughly mid-way in size between cruisers and destroyers.
This was similar to the use of the term "frigate" during the age of sail during which it referred to a medium-sized warship, but it was inconsistent with conventions used by other contemporary navies which regarded frigates as being smaller than destroyers.
During the ship reclassification , the large American frigates were redesignated as cruisers or destroyers, while ocean escorts the American classification for ships smaller than destroyers were renamed as frigates. One of the most successful post designs was the British Leander -class frigate , which was used by several navies. Laid down in , the Leanders were based on the previous Type 12 anti-submarine frigate but equipped for anti-aircraft use as well.
They were used by the UK into the s, at which point some were sold onto other navies. The Leander design, or improved versions of it, were licence-built for other navies. Nearly all modern frigates are equipped with some form of offensive or defensive missiles, and as such are rated as guided-missile frigates FFG. Improvements in surface-to-air missiles e. The Royal Navy Type 61 Salisbury class were "air direction" frigates equipped to track aircraft.
To this end they had reduced armament compared to the Type 41 Leopard -class air-defence frigates built on the same hull. The Destroyer has initially been a boat class to screen the Battleship and Cruisers, with their big, slow firing and cumbersome guns from the high-speed and nimble Torpedo Boats introduced around the late s.
A new class that was a bit larger, almost as fast and quick-firing smaller guns were introduced. This class was called the Torpedo Boat Destroyer, later shortened to Destroyer. Today, the line between a Frigate and Destroy is blurred. In general, a Destroyer is heavier, carries more firepower, and is slightly faster than a Frigate. Frigates also tend to have more of a focus on anti-submarine missions. However, both classes are frequently multi-mission capable.
In more extensive engagements, frigates would either group up to take on larger threats, escort a larger ship to prevent it from being flanked.
A destroyer is its namesake. In modern naval warfare, looking at different threats — when faced with aircraft attacks, Destroyers tend to defend themselves against a modern threat and protect any ships in the composition. Hence, longer-range weapons and sensor systems. Click here - to use the wp menu builder. Sign in.
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