as in sloop
a small and fast military ship
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Recent Examples of frigate
Russia says the crew of the frigate Admiral Grigorovich fired shots into the air after the sailboat failed to respond to warnings to change course.
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ABC News,
17 June 2026
O’Brien advised them to build a large, permanent air-force base, and to keep frigates on rotation in the Nuuk harbor, as a deterrent to the Russian and Chinese navies.
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Ben Taub,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
Both Salisbury and Schuster see the LCS as primarily stopgaps for the Navy, likely to give way to a new generation of frigates that was announced last December.
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Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
Cuba no longer maintains a meaningful blue-water navy, modern frigates or an operational submarine fleet comparable to Cold War levels.
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Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
28 May 2026
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ABC News,
17 June 2026
O’Brien advised them to build a large, permanent air-force base, and to keep frigates on rotation in the Nuuk harbor, as a deterrent to the Russian and Chinese navies.
—
Ben Taub,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
Both Salisbury and Schuster see the LCS as primarily stopgaps for the Navy, likely to give way to a new generation of frigates that was announced last December.
—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
Cuba no longer maintains a meaningful blue-water navy, modern frigates or an operational submarine fleet comparable to Cold War levels.
—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
28 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for frigate
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Just two days after the Hannah was underway, her crew captured the Unity, a sloop loaded with naval stores and lumber, supplies sorely needed by British forces in Boston.
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Palm Beach Motor Yachts has taken its supermaxi sloop to new heights—quite literally.
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The Continental brigantine Andrew Doria arrived carrying a copy of the Declaration of Independence and flying the Continental Colors – the predecessor of the stars and stripes.
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On December 4, 1872, sailors aboard the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia spotted a ship named the Mary Celeste in the distance.
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Get out on the water in a different way with Traverse Tall Ship Company, offering tours aboard the biggest tall ship on Lake Michigan, the 114-foot schooner Manitou.
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This burgeoning category received a further boost when one Paul Sperry slipped on the deck of his schooner, inspiring the American sailor to look for an alternate form of traction.
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Its Russian captain allegedly acted on Russian intelligence and a Russian corvette ran reconnaissance.
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Hull numbers provided by Japan's Defense Ministry identified the Russian vessels as the frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov, the corvette Gremyashchy and a replenishment ship.
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James Stocklas, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania One evening in 2016, dining at a sports bar in the Florida Keys, James Stocklas, 67, glimpsed a yacht on the water.
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But projects like the 59-foot Cigarette Tirranna performance cruiser and a range of CdM expedition yachts show the breadth of his portfolio.
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On August 3, 1492, the Genoese captain Christopher Columbus set sail on the Santa María from Palos, in the Bay of Cádiz on the coast of Spain, with around forty crewmen, alongside two smaller caravels, the Niña and the Pinta.
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In nearby Bonavista village, the Matthew Legacy is a full-sized replica of the caravel that Cabot sailed across the Atlantic on the fateful voyage.
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The Spanish, who had at first just flitted along the coast in their galleons, had begun marching inland and overland from Mexico with crosses and soldiers and soldiers’ families.
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Arquiste’s best-selling Nanban, for instance, conjures the aroma of a 17th-century galleon laden with coffee, leather, and saffron, while L’Or de Louis evokes the atmosphere of an orangerie at Versailles.
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And there was Fred Raskin, Gunn’s longtime cutter who worked on all the Guardians of the Galaxy movies and Gunn’s DC series Peacemaker.
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The Coast Guard cutter Eagle eased into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
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“Frigate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frigate. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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