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Sentence Examples Night had fallen by the time the frigate reached the dhow, and the ship's boarding party was greeted by a very relieved crew of fishermen. A recruit can easily become a fireman in engineering on a frigate or just as easily direct aircraft on a carrier as an airman. Major upgrades more normally undertaken during a refit are being carried out on a frigate during a docking period. The annals of the marine record no example of a shipwreck so terrible as that of the Medusa frigate. She has 27 sails in a frigate rig on three masts and a bowsprit, with a total surface area of 2,683 square metres. The Confederate frigate Halberd swung a wide arc around the freighter's stern and approached her docking port from aft. At various times of the year other bird species include the red-tailed tropic bird, the rufous night heron, and frigate birds. The 3,400 tonne Anzac Class frigate was the 10th ship in the firing column, with HMAS Newcastle positioned astern. The man pointed at a large triple-decked and triple-sailed frigate sitting in anchor in the shallows. The mayor later took the salute at a march past by the ship's company of the frigate, alongside Cdr Carden. Type 22 frigate HMS Cumberland has been lending one of the Royal Navy's carriers a hand during a crucial training period. Women have been going to sea in the RN for 14 years, so the prospect of a female commanding officer of a destroyer or frigate draws ever nearer. High in the sky frigate birds circle in the thermals, black wings spread wide, waiting and watching. Unlike aboard a frigate, the men aboard the Navy's battleships and cruisers felt nothing during transit. Devonport frigate HMS Campbeltown has returned home to the West Country after flying the flag and making friends in Russia and the Baltic. A Royal Navy frigate or minesweeper could be on station as well with twenty-four hours' notification. He dodged the anti-fighter cannon shots coming from the surface of the frigate. His frigate served initially as a troopship in the 1801 operations, before assuming the role of a hospital ship. The frigate turned around glowing with jet engines, aimed at the center of the moveless Galaxy spiral whirlpool and started gaining speed. Rich fish stocks make it the only avian rookery in North America for sooty terns, masked boobies and frigate birds. Show More Sentences Got a few lifers for my bird list too, including greater and lesser frigate birds, sooty falcon and olive bee-eater. She struck the frigate, buckling the port 30 mm gun deck, crushing the sea-boat sponsons and damaging the bridge wing. You could well describe the 3,400 tonne frigate and her ship's company of 163 led by CMDR Mike Noonan as busy bees. Unlike the Navy's larger warships, the scout frigate CO's had little more than one-man staterooms to serve as office and sleeping quarters. You don't want to miss stays and be stuck dead in the water as a frigate fires a full broadside at your small sloop. For the cost of one frigate, the Remorhaz Navy would have three capital ships off of the line for a month. The commander of the frigate removed Lexington's officers but left 70 of her men on board under hatches with a prize crew. But the frigate rallied and righted while the sea streamed below decks, though her hatches were laid and her hawseholes bagged. The frigate was struggling to break free, but with it's destroyed engine and other damage, it wasn't much of a fight. The old steam frigate was taken out of commission in March after 34 years' service. Even the fun of watching the frigate fire her guns did not help my airsickness. The Royal Navy group, which will include a submarine, a frigate, a destroyer and two support vessels, will set out from Portsmouth on Saturday. The classic sailing frigate was a fast and powerful warship, and was one of the most successful and charismatic ship designs of the age. This frigate bird was rescued from the Queen of Prince Rupert ferry after being blown off course by a storm. Great frigate birds, red-footed boobies, swallow-tailed gulls and storm petrels all breed here by the thousands. The primary symbol of the republic is the flag, which depicts a frigate bird over an ocean sunrise. As for me, I think frigate birds are cool, and I want to be more like them. The frigate bird waits on high and swoops when it spots a booby bird returning from sea with fish in its crop. The only inhabitants are pelicans, frigate birds, a few iguanas, bees and bugs, eagles and goats. Enter a forest of Optuntia cactus and mangroves where colonies of great frigate birds nest. Show More Sentences Lydia is one of the first four Christmas Island frigate birds to be fitted with satellite tracking devices. Elegant frigate birds soar high overhead, sea lions bark from their crowded rock perches, and schools of angelfish swarm beneath your bow. The male frigate bird has a unique adaptation to attract females, a red neck pouch that can be inflated like a balloon. The vessel is surprised by the very ship it's been tracking, a larger, more powerfully armed French frigate. The bomb was put in an anchored frigate, HMS Pym, and when it exploded at 8am local time on October 3rd thousands of tons of rock, mud and seawater were blasted into the air. The frigate was covering the cargo vessels when the fighters roared in, strafed it with cannon fire, and hit it with four bombs that failed to explode. Four of them were shipmates from the old Type 21 frigate HMS Avenger, stokers from 3D Mess, two of whom now live in Lancashire, one in Merseyside and the other in Guernsey. Other birds on the island include boobies, fairy terns, frigate birds, and a good-sized population of friendly ground doves, a species classed as internationally vulnerable. I can't resist pointing out that a master and commander would never captain a frigate, and quite properly the film has Aubrey wearing the two epaulettes of a post captain. What makes these frigate birds so neat is they are really a tropical species and are at their northern limits here, yet they breed in abundance at the refuge. The frigate, HMAS Warramunga, had to scramble over the holiday break to head deep into the Southern Ocean to apprehend an alleged toothfish poaching trawler. One of the frigate birds grabbed the fish in midair and the two flew off. At last a shot rang true, cutting the foremast of the frigate in two. The frigate bird fishes the easy way, if you like your fish predigested. The Confederate frigate shuddered, careening into an uncontrolled yaw. It is different for most land-based creatures, though spiders may drift in air as well as microfauna, and sea eagles, frigate birds, and glider pilots. They will be joined later this week by 800 Royal Marines on the new helicopter assault ship Ocean, which has set sail with a flotilla of three support ships and a frigate. In March 2010 a North Korean submarine, without cause, torpedoed the Cheonan, a South Korean frigate. Type 23 frigate HMS St Albans, damaged by a ferry in gales in the autumn, is back at sea today, well on course to resume her programme of trials and training. The mangroves in Codrington Lagoon are home to the world's largest colony of frigate birds, perhaps 10,000 in all, carefully protected by local residents. Show More Sentences The frigate is equipped with Thales Defence Sceptre A radar warner. Three of the existing American frigates were exceptionally large and powerful for their class, larger than any British frigate in North America. In January 1813, the American frigate Essex, under the command of Captain David Porter, sailed into the Pacific to harass British shipping. Decatur had surrendered the United States finest frigate and flagship President to a smaller ship, but part of a squadron of greater force. The frigate was called into action after 12 merchant seamen abandoned ship. The missile frigate Yantai of the Navy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army has wrapped up its first visit to Bulgaria. The British frigate HMS Cyclops, anchored at port, bombarded the city for two days and restored law and order. The Anzac-class frigate HMAS Toowoomba and the RNZAF P-3K2 Orion aircraft trailed a dhow from the Arabian Sea to the Horn of Africa. This deployment typically consists of a frigate and a survey vessel, operating separately. The 180 miles range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was fired from the Russian-built Indian Navy's latest guided missile frigate INS Tarkash. Nelson put to sea in pursuit of a French frigate, but on failing to catch her, sailed for Leghorn, and then to Corsica. Caracciolo was hanged aboard the Neapolitan frigate Minerva at 5 o'clock the same afternoon. In August 2011, it was announced that a female Lieutenant Commander, Sarah West, was to command the frigate HMS Portland. In late April 2010, HMS York was relieved by the Type 23 frigate HMS Portland. Construction started immediately, with the former frigate HMS Lapwing driven ashore as a temporary accommodation hulk. The Regele Ferdinand frigate participated in the 2011 military intervention in Libya. For example, the 300 ton English frigate Concord launched in 1710 but was captured by the French one year later. This was done by the Transport Squadron organized with four ships of the line, one frigate, four transport ships and 10 merchant ships. The expedition made a brief attempt to return to the ship, but could not find the frigate in the haze, and soon gave up and returned to Rockall. Finally, just before sunset, the frigate was again spotted from the top of Rockall, and the expedition was able to get back on board. Show More Sentences In 1786, as a result of this tuition, Marc became a naval cadet on a French frigate and during his service visited the West Indies several times. In January 1792, Brunel's frigate paid off its crew, and Brunel returned to live with his relatives in Rouen. Approximately 394 Belgians have served in Lebanon, in demining and medical operations, and a frigate is also present. Retreating American forces were forced to destroy the frigate Adams. Captain James Dacres of the Guerriere began a cycle of frigate duels by challenging the USS President to a single ship duel to avenge the losses aboard the Little Belt. The country participated in military action against the Taliban in October 2001 by deploying a frigate in the Arabian Sea for rescue and humanitarian operations. When already positioned in front of the square, the frigate was ordered to open fire against the armored vehicles of the revolutionary forces, but its crew refused. The group, comprising aircraft-carrier Cavour, supply ship Etna, frigate Bergamini and patrol ship Borsini, will be staying in Bahrain until Monday. Incidentally, the STANAVFORTLAND was in the Tagus and leaving it on the day of the Revolution, integrating the Portuguese frigate Almirante Gago Coutinho. The Portuguese naval presence in Guinea, from 1964, included a frigate, seven patrol boats, 15 landing craft, four Special Marine detachments and two Marine companies. The Canadian Navy's Halifax-class frigate HMCS Toronto and the Spanish guided missile frigate Almirante Juan de BorbEn are due in the Black Sea in by Sept. In 1955, the South African frigate Transvaal visited the island. In 1761 the Royal Navy clad the hull of the frigate HMS Alarm with copper sheet to reduce the growth of marine biofouling and prevent attack by the Teredo shipworm. There was little additional naval action until March 1854 when on the declaration of war the British frigate HMS Furious was fired on outside Odessa Harbour. Nelson helped oversee the withdrawal from Corsica, and by December 1796 was aboard the frigate HMS Minerve, covering the evacuation of the garrison at Elba. Examples from Classical Literature Meanwhile, the others had razeed a frigate, the Merrimac, and upon an angular roof laid railroad-iron to make her shot-proof. We are anxious about the Benbow frigate, as we are afraid that she may have been driven on shore. The vessel was built of teak, and had been a frigate in the Portuguese service. The same morning, an English frigate and a sloop-of-war came in and anchored. We make out the frigate to be the Terpsichore, and the sloop, I know by her new royals, is the ringdove. A frigate and a yacht had been constructed, with which the Volga had been navigated to its mouth at astrachan. A special messenger was sent out from England with a frigate to ascertain his fate. Did you see anything of a frigate this evening, near the Point of campanella? The frigate, in the Mediterranean also, maintained her superiority as a sailer. The frigate did not remain long at Guernsey, but, with the rest of the squadron, put to sea. Lying at the entrance they found a frigate, which in those days meant a very small craft, not much larger than a rowing boat. Our three chaps were Englishmen, and I make no doubt belonged to the frigate, as stated. Singularly enough a part of it was used for the sternpost of the frigate Essex. A frigate could have defied the landward guns of the Castle, and laid the town in ashes. Scarcely had he spoken, when the French frigate, luffing up, ran her bows against the quarter of the Isabel. They clapped on the frigate to aid the middies, and by and by started her out into the stream. The camel pitched and rolled like a frigate in a rough sea and the chechia responded to the motion as it had on the Zouave. He shifted his flag to the nonesuch, schooner, and sent the frigate to Trinidad. He still needed a vessel to serve as victualler to the frigate in which he purposed to sail for England. The spectacle greatly increased the eagerness of all onboard the frigate to take part in the work. Show More Sentences Directly afterwards the French frigate ran up on our larboard and lee quarter, and yawing rapidly, fired into us. Day after day went by, but still the Benbow frigate did not make her appearance. One magnificent evening, the 30th July, the frigate was abreast of Cape Blanc, thirty miles to leeward of the coast of Patagonia. While in the hospital, the frigate made a cruise, leaving me ashore. They eagerly looked out, but nowhere was the Benbow frigate to be seen. This passed, the frigate took a more decided westerly direction, and scoured the central waters of the Pacific. I wish to brush up my recollections of what a frigate is like. So in a quarter of an hour, perhaps less, the frigate would have sailed without me. Aitken was arrested in 1777 and hanged himself from the mast of the frigate HMS Arethusa. You are the grandson of Admiral Sir Wingrave Seton who commanded a frigate at Trafalgar, and an ancestor of yours fought in the Armada. She was a frigate of great speed, fitted with high-pressure engines which admitted a pressure of seven atmospheres. The sea-breeze will soon be up to us, and we may laugh at the frigate. To these must be added the Druid frigate, the sloop of war, and the Gnat. The frigate passed at some distance from the Marquesas and the Sandwich Islands, crossed the tropic of Cancer, and made for the China Seas. The fifty-seventh vessel I boarded was the Melampus frigate. You are like a frigate bird swooping down upon the boobies and robbing them of the fish they have caught. This ship was a vessel of the size of a frigate, and carried twelve guns. But the frigate which had her in tow hove in stays, and got her round. About noon the frigate rejoined him, when matters were fully explained. The frigate and galleon came together with a terrific crash. Show More Sentences The frigate and her prize then made sail together for Sierra Leone. The order to stop her had been given, and the frigate now simply went on by her own momentum. Some moments after, the two funnels of the frigate vomited torrents of black smoke, and the bridge quaked under the trembling of the boilers. Soon after the Plantaganet, 74, and the rota frigate arrived. The other was the Marquis de la Maison Forte, captain of a French frigate which had been taken by Commodore Warren's fleet. The captain of a frigate in the harbor, and two or three civil officers under the Crown, were also there. A frigate of great speed, the Abraham Lincoln, was put in commission as soon as possible. Putin was snapped riding a small submersible craft 200ft down the Gulf of Finland to see the remains of the naval frigate Oleg, Sky News reported. Captain Farragut was a good seaman, worthy of the frigate he commanded. The frigate might have been called the Argus, for a hundred reasons. Today, his mum, Sheena MacColl, 49, will tie a giant yellow ribbon to the 188-yearold Royal Navy frigate HMS Unicorn in Dundee, seven weeks after he vanished. Find more words! 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Words that rhyme with frigate What is the plural of frigate? What is the noun for frigate? Translations for frigate Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words frig friezes Frieze frieze Friesland Friesian frigates frigate's frigg Frigg Frigga fright 7-letter Words Starting With f fr fri frig friga frigat