I am also having some galliots and fragatas built, so that I may be supplied with vessels for both present and future emergencies.
Second: in regard to the many occupations in which the Spaniards employ the Indians, such as setting them to row in the galleys and fragatas despatched by the governor and officials on various commissions, which are never lacking.
It would not be difficult to capture it with a single galley, and the capture would be much easier with twelve or thirteen fragatas that could be assembled.
The cost of such fragatasand lanchas in these islands would be six thousand pesos de Tipusque [111] all finished and ready for sailing.
In the fragatas and other vessels of his Majesty which ply amid these islands eighty Indians are employed from month to month, each receiving one peso per month and their board, which amounts to nine hundred and sixty pesos.
They bring here the fragatas and vessels which convey hither aid and means of defense for this land, and take back the provisions and other supplies needed in the king's service.
The fragatas can also protect us against other Chinese and Bornean pirates; and against any other emergencies and dangers, from foreigners or from the natives.
Ninth: There should be some master shipwrights for building galleys and fragatas with high sides, which are the best kind of craft for this purpose.
This entire force embarked in small boats, and in two fragatas brought from nearby islands, as no time had been given, in the haste necessary for this expedition, to wait until larger ships could be found.
There were also twenty-seven small boats and fragatas and one galley, sufficiently provided for one year.
Fifteen fragatas and one galleon will be enough, and they are to be accompanied by Filipino pioneers.
Then he sent out officers in fragatas to search for rice, giving them four hundred pesos for the purpose, and directing them to pay as long as the money lasted, and then to take provisions in any way in which they could get them.
On the eighth of January, Captain Chaves arrived with his fragatas at the river, and on the twelfth planned and founded the fort of Tanpacan near this settlement of our friends.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fragatas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
