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frigate - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- gun: Launched 1 st August 1810, cut down to a frigate of 50 guns ( 4 th rate ) 1831.
Converse of object
- capture: In 1805 he lost an arm during an action in which he captured some French frigates.
- build: The most recent ship to bear the name HMS Duncan was a Type 14 frigate built in 1957.
- include: There are also a few wrecks including the Russian frigate, Capt. Keith Tibbets, sunk in 1996 at 25m.
- sink: Normally, a ship of the line would have been able to sink a frigate with a very few broadsides.
- command: He then commanded the frigate HMS BRILLIANT, was Director of the Naval Staff and had the role of Senior Naval Officer Middle East.
Adjective modifier
- anti-submarine: The next solution was to develop anti-submarine frigates that could be added to the escort groups.
- French: This was followed by action with a French frigate.
- Spanish: After a general action of 35 minutes the Spanish frigate struck, three of the gunboats blew up and six were sunk.
- British: The wind was too light to let them chase off the British frigates.
- American: The American frigates which captured them were armed with long guns.
- English: It was the harbor that Sir Henry Morgan had taken with three small English frigates.
Modifies a noun
- bird: A farmer found a frigate bird in a moribund state in Shropshire, England on 7th November.
- captain: Promoted to Post Captain in 1783 he quickly gained a reputation as a smart frigate captain.
Noun used with modifier
- gun: In the 1790s the Americans built some very large 44 gun frigates with an extra gun deck on top of the normal one.
- missile: We descended onto the deck of the Russian destroyer 356, a missile frigate that had once belonged to the Soviet Navy.
- steam: Account of capture of four noted slavers by Her Majesty's steam frigate, Cormorant on the coast of Brazil.
- class: November - HRH joined HMS Minerva, a Leander class frigate.
- screw: The " Defense " a screw steamer war frigate was launched in the afternoon.
- navy: The protesters chained themselves to a French navy frigate.
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