* 1945 – World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.

A frigate () is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.

The Marina Militare is now equipping itself with a bigger aircraft carrier ( the Cavour ), new destroyers ( Horizon class frigate Orizzonte class ) and Luigi durand de La Penne, submarines ( Todaro ) and multipurpose frigates.

* HMS Iron Duke named after Wellington, is the name of three ships in the Royal Navy, one of which is still in active service ( a frigate )

* 1815 – War of 1812: American frigate, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.

* 2004 –, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.

* 1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.

F-511 TCG Heybeliada is the lead ship of the Milgem class corvette | Milgem class next generation corvette s and frigate s of the Turkish Navy.

* The third is an Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate.

* May 10 – The first ship of the United States Navy, the frigate USS UNITED STATES, is commissioned.

* October 21 – In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched to fight Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli.

Asteroid 2473 Heyerdahl is named after him, as is HNoMS Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian Nansen class frigate.

Seven Royal Navy ships have been named after the town, including a Type 23 frigate launched in 1991 which is still in operation.

Today at least one helicopter is found on all ships of frigate size or larger.

The Piet Hein Tunnel in Amsterdam is named in his honor, as is the former Dutch Kortenaer class frigate, Hr.

* 2005: The retired frigate HMNZS Wellington is sunk off Wellington as an artificial reef.

A Polish frigate, ORP Generał Kazimierz Pułaski, is also named after Pulaski.

However, the introduction of the ironclad frigate in about 1859 led swiftly to the decline of the steam-assisted ships of the line, though the ironclad warship became the ancestor of the 20th-century battleship, whose very designation is itself a contraction of the phrase " line-of-battle ship.

* HMS St Albans is a Type 23 Duke class frigate.

The successful Revolutionary frigate USS Deane was named after him, as is the Silas Deane Middle School, the Webb Deane Stevens Museum, and the Silas Deane Highway in Wethersfield.

A corvette ( sometimes corvet ) is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate ( 2000 + tons ) and larger than a coastal patrol craft or fast attack craft ( 500 or fewer tons ), although many recent designs resemble frigates in size and role.

There is a long tradition of Russian naval vessels bearing Nevsky's name, such as the nineteenth century screw frigate Alexander Nevsky and a nuclear submarine currently being built for the Russian Navy.

In the French squadron, De Rigny was so appalled by the state of the 3 battleships sent to him that he decided to keep his flag on the Sirène, a modern frigate.

Bougainville wrote: It was not before 1766, that the English sent a colony to settle in Port de la Croisade, which they had named Port Egmont ; and captain Macbride, of the Jason frigate, came to our settlement the same year, in the beginning of December.

In August 1826 he was promoted to captain, and, in 1828, given command of the 26-gun frigate HMS Challenger, and sent to claim the west coast of Australia for the United Kingdom.

The area was first explored by the Portuguese in 1785, and was claimed for Portugal by Luís Cândido Cordeiro Pinheiro Furtado, who had been sent there in the frigate Loanda by the then governor-general of Angola, Baron Moçâmedes, who also sent an overland expedition headed by Gregório José Mendes to rendezvous with Furtado.

On 12 August the 32-gun Danish frigate Frederiksværn sailed for Norway from Elsinor and Admiral Lord Gambier sent the 74-gun third rate and the 22 gun sixth rate after her, even though war had not yet been declared.

Branch also sent the frigate USS Potomac to the Far East to punish the murderers of a U. S. merchant ship's crew and to generally promote and protect American commerce in the region.

Villeneuve then sent the prizes into Guadeloupe under the escort of the frigate Sirene.

Early in April a portion of the revolutionary squadron, comprising the armoured frigate Blanco Encalada and other ships, was sent southward for reconnoitring purposes and put into the port of Caldera.

Having been sent to Richard at the age of 14 by his dying mother, he joined the Royal Navy, rising through the ranks to establish himself as a daring and resourceful frigate captain, as his uncle had once done.

Notably Captain Jacques Bergeret, captured in April 1796 with the frigate Virginie, was sent from England to Paris to negotiate his own exchange ; when the Directoire refused, he returned to London.

Upon the execution of Ferdinand Maximilian by the Mexican government of Benito Juárez, Tegetthoff was sent with the screw frigate Novara to bring his body home to Austria, arriving in the port of Trieste on 16 January 1868.

He was sent out to the Pacific in command of the frigate " Blanca ," and was present at the bombardment of Valparaíso and Callao, where he was badly wounded, and in other engagements of the war between Chile and Peru.

He had no appointment in the Royal Navy until 1858, when he was sent out to China to take command of the Tribune frigate and convey a body of marines to Vancouver Island, where the dispute with the United States about the San Juan Islands was threatening to become very bitter.

When Admiral William Cornwallis tries to put him in a position where he can make easy prize money by capturing a large shipment of Spanish gold, he instead takes on a stronger enemy frigate sent to warn the convoy and keeps it from accomplishing its mission.

* October-Jean Hamlin captures between sixteen and eighteen ships near Jamaica before being forced to leave the area by a frigate sent by Governor Thomas Lynch that fails to capture Hamlin.

His request was granted and the armored frigate SMS Kaiser, the light cruiser SMS Prinzess Wilhelm and the small cruiser SMS Cormoran were sent.

After the newly-appointed Bey of Tripoli, Sidi Yussuf, demanded an increased tribute ( essentially a bribe to stop Tripolitans preying on Danish merchant ships ), and captured two Danish vessels, whose crews he sold into slavery, Denmark sent Captain Lorenz Fisker in the 40-gun frigate Thetis to Tripoli.

They sent Captain Steen Andersen Bille in the frigate Najaden 40, under Captain John Hoppe, to Malta, where she arrived on 2 May 1797.

Leaving Barbados on 28 July, his force prowled off Martinique and then Guadeloupe, where he sent a frigate to assault the harbor and capture two merchant vessels on 4 August.

It was reported by AVN Military News Agency in June 2000 that the new brigade, which may have inherited the lineage of the disbanded 77th Motor Rifle Division, was to have its troops housed in Kaspiysk and Astrakhan, and have as many as 195 combat vehicles and 1 Gepard class frigate sent to it from Chukotka and the Northern Fleet, respectively.

Another son Charles Howe Fremantle became the Captain of the 26 gun frigate HMS Challenger the first ship to arrive in a fleet of 3 ships sent out from Britain to establish a colony at the Swan River in Western Australia.

Admiral Edward Edwards ( 1742 – 1815 ) was a British naval officer best known as the captain of HMS Pandora, the frigate which the Admiralty sent to the South Pacific in pursuit of the Bounty mutineers.

With Alexandre now in danger of becoming isolated, Villaret sent the frigate Régénérée to take the lumbering vessel under tow at 05: 00.