A sufficient number of mechanics to construct every ship necessary for the lake-service, might have been sent out for one-fourth of the expense incurred by the bare transportation of a single frigate from Quebec to Kingston.
The decks of the frigate soon presented a pitiable sight.
Among the war-ships burned and sunk at the navy-yard upon its abandonment was the fine frigate Merrimac, of over three thousand tons, and carrying forty guns.
Does she think she can run that fine bigfrigate down, like this ship did us in Boston Harbour?
The moon in her second quarter was just rising over the rippling waters, but her silvery light for those on board the Minnesota paled in the presence of the brilliant illumination proceeding from the burning frigate Congress.
The sun had already sunk behind the western hills before the frigate reached the Point; and the navigation of Hampton Roads being somewhat difficult, her captain decided to anchor for the night and take on a pilot in the morning.
They contain the whole of what has passed between the two Governments on the subject of the outrage committed by the British ship Leopard on the frigate Chesapeake.
Propulsion by means of a screw was at this time a novelty, the steamships of war being generally large paddle boats and sailing ships combined, a state of transition between the frigate of Nelson's day and the modern steamship.
The Henries steamer, Captain Fishbourne, first towed the Fox frigateto within 400 yards of the stockade, where she anchored to protect the merchantmen as they passed by to be out of fire.
On the evening of the 25th the storm increased to such a pitch of violence that the frigate in which Bouvet had hoisted his flag was blown out to sea.
In 1744 he captured the French frigate "Medee," commanded by M.
Whiz--whiz; both sloop and frigate were firing now in good earnest, and one shell exploded a few yards from the side of the little vessel, tossing the foam and water over the group on deck.
Day broke fully, sea and sky took the rich orange tint which only autumn mornings give, and in this glow a Federal frigate and sloop slipped from their moorings, and bore down threateningly on the graceful bounding schooner.
Petersburg, on board a frigate that had been built by his direction, taking with him six transport vessels, for present use, till the others could be got ready.
All the prisoners taken in this campaign marched in the train of the victors, who had the Swedish colours and standards carried before them, together with the flag of the Swedish frigate taken on the lake Peipus.
These built a largefrigate and a yacht upon the Wolga, which they navigated down that river to Astracan, where they were to be employed in building more vessels, for carrying on an advantageous trade with Persia, by the Caspian Sea.
Josephe, from whom they had concealed the name of the frigate that was ravaged by the epidemic, had no suspicion of the danger of her friend; still, her sister and herself had none the less lost all their gaiety.
I have heard nothing of this frigate or of any exploits of her's, while she was a new ship, and in the French service.
The landing was effected in gallant style, and with most extraordinary celerity and order, and part of the time under the guns of a Neapolitan frigate and two steamers.
The Piedmontese admiral, with another steam frigate and the ex-Neapolitan ships, is in the harbor.
The frigate was saved, but one of her tenders and four cannons and six swivels were taken.
It was at this period that Hale planned an attack, made by members of his own company, to set fire to the frigate Phoenix.
I have heard whole crews cheer you; every man feels that you have saved the nation by furnishing us with the means to whip an iron-clad frigate that was, until our arrival, having it all her own way with our most powerful vessels.
His application for a mathematical professorship in the Navy resulted in his passing the severe examination, and in an appointment to the frigate Independence.
Know then, Mistress Peggy, that I shall in a few days conduct you to Portsmouth, where the frigate 'Iris' lies preparing to return to New York.
He indicated a frigatebeautifully decorated with a variety of streamers anchored just off the quay.
In 1782 his frigate was taken by a British squadron; he himself was carried to England, but was almost immediately released on parole and returned to France.
My uncle thinks a good deal of gaining honour, and I believe he'd rather take an enemy's frigate after a hard-fought action, than capture a Spanish galleon without a blow.
All the ships in the harbour and at Spithead ran up their bunting at the same moment; and I had just belayed our signal halliards when I saw a boat, crowded with seamen and marines, putting off from a frigate lying right ahead of us.
Mr Vernon jumped into one of them, and the master into another; and as the frigate lost her way, they shoved off and pulled in the direction of the spot where the man was supposed to have fallen.
I fear so," I replied; "but the frigate is still not so very far off.
The repairs of the frigate having been completed, we once more put to sea, and made sail for Tripoli and Tunis.
By this time we were a couple of miles or more away from the shore, but the frigate was still some five or six miles from us.
Still it was too evident that they would be up to us before the frigate could come to our assistance.
In December, 1797, an English three-decker and a frigate menaced Aguadilla, but an attempt at landing was repulsed.
In August, 1803, British privateers boarded and captured a French frigatein the port of Salinas in this island.
To prevent this, 2 more ships and a frigate were sunk across the entrance with all they had on board, there being no time to unload them.
If we compare this remarkable case with that of His Majesty's frigate Lowestoffe, when near the island of Minorco in 1796, we perceive how great is the protection science affords to the seaman.
The log of the frigate Shannon, commanded by the late gallant Sir W.
Our men replied and said that they owed no such duty nor obedience to him, and therefore would acknowledge none; but commanded the frigate to depart with that answer, and not to stay longer upon her peril.
With that away she went; and up came towards them the other frigate of Malta; and she in like sort hailed the Admiral, and would needs know whence they were and where they had been.
The frigate answered, "Not so; they neither have nor purpose to yield.
With that the frigate came away with Master Rowit, and brought him aboard to the English Admiral again, according to promise, who was no sooner entered in but by-and-bye defiance was sounded on both sides.
But her greatest feat was when in company with the Swiftsure and the frigate Euryalus she played a gallant part in the Battle of Trafalgar.
An hour later those aboard the Eagle were relieved to see the frigate give up the chase, and stand away for the French coast.
The Newcastle's boat was on the leeward coast that night, and one of our cutters was getting ready to lower, nearly off Prosperous Bay, to windward, while the frigate herself would hold farther out to sea.
The Indiaman's crew I kept, prisoners and all, till we should meet the frigate off the Sunderbunds.
No one could say who it was, however; and, for my part, the sight of the frigate made me still more cautious than before of letting out what Westwood and I were.
I have seldom felt so relieved as when I saw the frigate haul round her main-yard, and go sweeping off to leeward, while we resumed our course.
Five minutes after, the Podargus swept round the breast of Rupert's Hill into the bay, in sight of Jamestown and the ships lying off the harbour; clewing up her sails and ready to drop anchor, as the frigate hove to not far astern.
The Constitution, the best frigate in the United States service, sailed into the midst of Broke's five ships.
Only three days before, Captain Dacres had entered on the log of a merchantman a challenge to any American frigate to meet him off Sandy Hook.
Having reached Cape Race without meeting an enemy, he turned southward, until on the night of August 18th he spoke a privateer, which told him of a British frigate near at hand.
At daybreak the next morning one British frigate was astern within five or six miles, two more were to leeward, and the rest of the fleet some ten miles astern, all making chase.
The Rose frigate sailed in search of the reef and explored it with much care but failed to find the wreck.
Another mystery of the voyage of this thirty-two gun frigate of the royal navy is her employment as a mere packet, carrying cash and bullion for the benefit of private individuals.
The little notch in the seaward cliffs, into which the frigate had been driven, was named Thetis Cove by Captain Dickinson who explored it vainly for traces of the wrecked hull.
Staid Boston was glad when the Rose frigate and her turbulent company bore away for the West Indies.
The flavor of piracy is lacking, true enough, but the tragedy of the Lutine frigate possessed mystery and romance nevertheless, and is worthy of a place in such a book as this.
By this means, several men had been hauled to safety when the dying frigatelurched wildly and parted the hawser.
It seems rather extraordinary that the exact amount of the treasure lost in the frigate should be a matter of conjecture, and that the records of Lloyd's throw no light on this point.
The frigate Endymion concluded that once was enough, and next morning the Prince de Neuchatel bore away for Boston with a freshening breeze.
While in the Indian Ocean young Silsbee fell in with a frigate which gave him news of the beginning of war between England and France.
Even after he had become Governor he thrashed the captain of the Nonesuch frigate of the royal navy, and used his fists on the Collector of the Port after cursing him with tremendous gusto.
With bulldog persistence he besieged the court of James II for a whole year, this rough-and-ready New England shipmaster, until he was given a royal frigate for his purpose.
I received a note early one morning from my chief mate that one of my sailors, Edward Hulen, a fellow townsman whom I had known from boyhood, had been impressed and taken on board of a British frigate then being in port.
Captain Geddes, however, was unable to save his prize because a British frigate swooped down and took them both into Charleston.
This handsome frigate privately built by patriots of the republic illuminates the coastwise spirit and conditions of her time.
Becalmed, the privateer and the frigate anchored a quarter of a mile apart.
Step forth and give your assistance in building the frigate to oppose French insolence and piracy.
After a year in English prisons he was released and made his way home, serving no more in the war but having the honor to command the immortal frigate Constitution in 1799 as a captain in the American Navy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frigate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cruiser; galleon; junk; vessel; yacht
