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frigate

Escort warship smaller than a destroyer. Before 1975 the term referred to a warship larger than a destroyer but smaller than a light cruiser. In the 18th and 19th centuries a frigate was a small, fast sailing warship.



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A frigate of great speed, the Abraham Lincoln, was put in commission as soon as possible.
An English frigate was just about to sail, and the three travellers procured passage on board of her.
Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home.
 
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