Sarah West

I am very proud to be taking command of a Type 23 frigate, which is an extremely flexible warship, and I'm looking forward to taking HMS Portland on operations with a professional and focused team.

English Soldier

Peter Stuyvesant

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

Dutch Public Servant

Jenny Shipley

The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002.

New Zealander Statesman

Lord North

Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.

British Statesman

Frigate refers to a specific class of warship, familiar to those interested in military terminology.

Navy Vessel

In modern context, 'frigate' is commonly used for warships equipped with guided missiles.

Contemporary Use

Understand that a frigate is typically smaller than a destroyer but larger than a corvette within a naval fleet.

Relative Size

Historically, a frigate is a sailing warship, which could evoke images of pirates and naval battles of the past.

Historic Ship

Traditionally, frigates served important roles like patrolling and escorting merchant ships to protect them.

Escort Duties

When discussing frigate in nature contexts, it's a frigatebird, interesting for bird watchers especially during mating season.

Bird Watching

A frigatebird has distinct long wings and a forked tail, which sets it apart visually from other seabirds.

Unique Appearance

 that "There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away ..." And it's true. When we pick up a book, turn on the TV, or watch a movie, we're carried away down the currents of story into a world of imagination. And when we land, on a shore that is both new and familiar, something strange happens.

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 He couldn't eat. The great poet Emily Dickinson once said, "There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away." How true for Lincoln. Though he never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to merry England,

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 choose an even more isolated site bosun bird island a lonely pillar just off ascensions coast frigates are the world's lightest bird relative to their

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 when frigates join the hunt the flying fish are literally caught between devil and the deep blue sea