Sailing ships-of-the-line and frigates should have two alleys for each magazine.
In vessels of the class of Frigates and upward, these boxes are to be, on covered decks, kept in their several divisions and secured overhead.
Then followed the destruction of the Algerine frigates and other shipping in the port, which were set on fire by bombs and shells and burned together with the storehouses and the arsenal.
The English admiral's force was joined at Gibraltar by a Dutch squadron of five frigates and a sloop under Admiral Baron von de Capellan.
Nevertheless, the Turks contrived to lose two small frigates by the fireships of the Greeks.
She captured the furthest wandering vessels; visited the remotest seas and isles; long hovered in the charmed vicinity of the enchanted group; and, finally, valiantly gave up the ghost fighting two English frigates in the harbor of Valparaiso.
Even the frigates that were armed had but a third, at most, of their crews on board, so many having deserted owing to the backwardness of their pay.
So the ketches and some of the light frigates were at once sent off to find the ships that had not yet joined, and give them orders to make for Yarmouth, Lowestoft, or Harwich.
Taking their places in the boat again, they rowed round the horseshoe curve down to Gillingham, and then along to the spot where the frigates were moored.
Sir Edward has taken four frigates down to the narrow part of the river, sir, and preparations have been made for placing a great chain there.
The Duke of York, who was patron and governor of our African Company, sent Sir Robert Holmes with four frigates to Guinea to make reprisals.
Cyril had sounded the passage as he went through, and it was found that two of the frigates could not enter it.
Sir Edward followed them with his little squadron, and Van Ness, as he retired down the river, was met by five frigates and fourteen fire-ships from Harwich.
The first of the frigates building by the Government to reach the water was the "United States.
At that disaster four American frigates were lost: so many of the best naval officers were thrown out of employment.
This was the beginning of the present United States navy; for some of the frigates built under that law are still afloat, although no longer exposed to the rude shocks of battle or the still more violent onslaughts of the mighty ocean.
The channel was thronged with the heavy frigates of Great Britain, any one of which could have annihilated the audacious Yankee cruiser.
Shortly after, two hostile frigates hove in sight, and the "President" fled for her life before them for more than eighty hours.
Side by side the two frigates ploughed through the water.
In accordance with the law, the frames of six frigates were quickly laid upon the stocks at six different shipyards; and even while the ribs were yet uncovered, commanders were selected for the unbuilt ships.
Then all became still, and the twofrigates bore down upon each other.
When the head of the British column entered Whitehall, the two new American frigates "Washington" and "Effingham" were wrapped in flames.
In their newspapers the Americans read with wonder and pride of the successes of their new vessels and young sailors, against the trained seamen and best frigates of France.
Then the Swazis were rolled up, snug and snoring, in their blankets.
He is distributed among all the alligators in the river.
And now, send one of these indunas to go with me to the waggons and to remain the night, for your people are turbulent and rude at times, Ingonyama, and I would avoid trouble with them.
Light armor is a complete protection against the most destructive shells, and the old wooden frigates could stand a long battle with solid shot.
Here they discovered, dimly in the distance, two frigates riding at anchor, and some fishing-boats near the shore, apparently waiting to receive them.
He ordered Gantheaume immediately to get ready for sea two frigates from the harbor of Alexandria, and two small vessels, with provisions for four hundred men for two months.
The pursuit lasted through the day, the "Minerve" being hard pressed in consequence of the injuries received by all her masts during the engagement; but both British frigates succeeded in shaking off their pursuers.
When the British entered, the frigates had disappeared, being in fact the same that Nelson had fought ten days before.
So far from reinforcing the squadron on the Riviera, Sir Hyde Parker first reduced it, and then took away the frigates at this critical moment, when the indications of the French moving were becoming apparent in an increase of boldness.
The wind not being fair for Minorca, where Nelson had purposed to reconnoitre Port Mahon, thefrigates next went to Cartagena, and ascertained that the great Spanish fleet was certainly not there.
Why he had not more accurate news from lookout frigates is not clear; but, as Nelson said, he took things easy, and he had persuaded himself that they had left harbor only to exercise their men.
Nelson being with the troops, the "Agamemnon" with some frigates was anchored north of the city, Hood with his ships south of it.
Although no peace had been concluded with Tunis or Tripoli it was with the utmost difficulty that a bill for the completion of three, instead of six, frigates could be carried.
The British frigates having joined the van, the galleys, already hard pressed by the gunboats, were completely overpowered.
Most of the men were taken out, the frigates withdrawn, and the Merlin set on fire, after which the Augusta blew up, and a few of the crew were lost in her.
As the boom and chains drawn across the river could no longer be defended the Continental frigates and galleys lying above them were burnt to prevent their falling into the hands of the enemy.
Count D'Estaing touched at the capes of the Delaware on the 5th of July, and on learning that the British had evacuated Philadelphia, he dispatched one of his frigates up the river with M.
At length the pirates gave signs of having had the worst of it; the two smaller vessels once more hauled their tacks on board and stood away to the westward, and one of the frigates soon followed their example.
The troops were landed at North Point, while sixteen of the bomb-vessels and frigates approached within reach of Fort McHenry, and commenced a bombardment which lasted twenty-five hours.
The Russians had some of them in their fleet, and at Sinope, with their shell-guns, they blew up two Turkish frigates in fifteen minutes.
An English fleet of seventeen sail of the line and some frigates had been sent out to intercept them; but the two fleets passed each other in a thick fog, and all the French vessels except two reached Quebec in safety.
In the following year, a French squadron of two frigates and two sloops, passed the British fleets with perfect impunity, destroyed the shipping in the port of Ilfracombe, and safely landed their troops on the coast of Wales.
The passage was now open for the Duke of Savoy to prosecute his destination, while frigates were stationed along the different parts of the sea coast, in order to keep up a mutual communication.
Leaving some coppered frigatesto watch their motions, he returned to Gros Islet Bay.
A petty attempt on Wales, by means of a set of wretched criminals, terminated with their immediate surrender to Lord Cawdor; and the capture of the frigates that had transported them, by Sir H.
On the 12th of October, Le Hoche of 80, the frigates Bellone, Coquille, and Ambuscade were taken by Sir John Warren's squadron.
Sir James Wallace, by an exploit in Cancalle Bay, recalled to the public mind the deeds of former times, by the capture or destruction of three frigates under the French batteries.
A fewfrigates landed General Humbert, who, with his followers, were made prisoners in Ireland; but not without making a respectable opposition.
Some parties of Marines, from frigates in the river, were incorporated with his garrison, of whom his Lordship was pleased to make honourable mention in the public details of his persevering defence.
Then--but not till then--the frigates sailed away.
The frigates then drew off, and went their way; to be seen from the watch-towers of the sacred isles no more; vanquished and put to shame; though visibly not by the hand of man.
The two frigates anchored seven miles from the shore: the Archimandrite ordered the convent bell to toll for a special service to the Most Pure Mother of God.
On the English frigates opening fire, the bell in the courtyard tolled the monks to prayer.
Great frigates are laid up in Southern navy-yards.
The sailors were sent to man the frigates anew and attack the squadron of Holmes.
At daybreak the frigates of the squadron, anchoring before each point of real or pretended attack, opened a fierce cannonade on the French intrenchments; and, a quarter of an hour after, the three divisions rowed towards the shore.
Vaudreuil now saw his mistake in sending the French frigates up the river out of harm's way, and withdrawing their crews to serve the batteries of Quebec.
A French sixty-four gun ship, and two frigates of thirty-six each, arrived in our bay three days ago.
Two days ago, I received information of the arrival of a sixty-four gun ship and two frigates in our bay, being part of the fleet of our good ally at Rhode Island.
I mentioned to him that, considering the uncertainty of a peace, when bought, perhaps Congress might think it more eligible to establish a cruise of frigates in the Mediterranean, and even to blockade Algiers.
Their works for rendering Cherbourg a harbor for their vessels of war, and Dunkirk, for frigates and privateers, leave now little doubt of success.
Still twenty-five small frigates were hardly a big enough bugbear to terrify all Europe, let them patch them never so neatly.
About 1788 the whole Morocco navy consisted of six or eight frigates of two hundred tons, armed with fourteen to eighteen six-pounders, and some galleys.
During the action the sea is described as having run so high, that the men on the main decks of the frigates were up to their middles in water.
On the 15th October, when near Black Cod Bay, two very large French frigates were seen and pursued, but they were lost sight of during the night.
The two frigatesare appointed, to carry him, who was lately our Emperor, to the United States of America.
The baggage will be distributed between the two frigates agreeably to his directions.
He will dispose of the interior of the frigatesfor his own accommodation, in whatever manner he may deem most convenient, without detriment to their means of defence.
The commanders of the two frigates are forbidden to enter any roadsteads, from which they might find difficulty or delay in departing.
The Emperor then declared, that he was ready to repair with his family to the United States; and that he would embark, as soon as two frigates were placed at his disposal.
When, therefore, three French frigates cast anchor in Killalla Bay, on the 22nd of August, they did not find the country wholly unprepared, though far from being as ripe for revolt as they expected.
One of his five frigates returned to France, another was never heard of, but with the remaining three he emerged from the Scottish Islands, and entered Lough Foyle early in 1760.
The arrival of three Spanish frigates with arms and ammunition in Donegal Bay was welcome news to the Northern Catholics.
After many disappointments, the flag-ship and three of the frigates were at last within range and the action began.
Six hours' fighting laid the Hoche a helpless log upon the water; nothing was left her but surrender; two of the frigates shared the same fate on the same day; another was captured on the 14th, and yet another on the 17th.
Early in May, 1779, a British fleet with a large force of frigates and transports passed through the Capes and on into Hampton Roads, under the command of Sir George Collier.
Virginia, looks so fair, it is believed that in a short time, they will get the art of building as good frigates as there are in England.
The ship Virginia was built here and the two frigates laid on the stocks, with a number of other vessels.
Evidently, James Maxwell's two frigates were included in this group.
Since 1852 her ships of the line have increased from two to forty, and her frigates from twenty-one to forty-six.
In 1859 he ordered the construction of twenty steel-clad frigates and fifty gunboats.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frigates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
