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List Of Frigate Classes By Country
The list of frigates by country includes all modern (post–1940) frigates organized by the country of which they were in service. Argentina (Armada de la República Argentina) * ''Azopardo'' class - 2 ships (1957-1973) * ''Almirante Brown'' class - 4 ships in service 1983 * ''Espora'' class - 6 ships in service 1985 Australia (Royal Australian Navy) * River class - 6 ships (all 6 decommissioned) * ''Adelaide'' class - 6 ships (all 6 decommissioned) * ''Anzac'' class - 8 ships built 1993-2004 * ''Hunter'' class - 9 ships ordered Bangladesh (Bangladesh Navy) * ''Bangabandhu'' class - 1 ship (Ulsan Class) * ''Osman'' class - 1 ship (ex-Chinese 'Jianghu I' class) * ''Abu Bakr'' class - 2 ships (Type 053H2 Class Frigate) * ''Umar Faruq'' class - 2 ship (ex-British Salisbury class) (decommissioned) * ''Hamilton'' class - 2 ships (ex- USCGC ''Jarvis'' and USCGC ''Rush'') * Type-053H class-(4 ships)(2 have been launched and 2 more are on order) Belgium * ''Wieling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frigate
A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied somewhat. The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and maneuverability, intended to be used in scouting, escort and patrol roles. The term was applied loosely to ships varying greatly in design. In the second quarter of the 18th century, the 'true frigate' was developed in France. This type of vessel was characterised by possessing only one armed deck, with an unarmed deck below it used for berthing the crew. Late in the 19th century (British and French prototypes were constructed in 1858), armoured frigates were developed as powerful ironclad warships, the term frigate was used because of their single gun deck. Later developments in ironclad ships rendered the frigate designation obsolete and the term fell out of favour. During the Second World War the name 'frigate' was reintroduced to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USCGC Rush (WHEC-723)
USCGC ''Rush'' (WHEC-723) was a United States Coast Guard high endurance cutter. The ship was named after Secretary of the Treasury Richard Rush. ''Rush'' was launched on November 16, 1968, commissioned on July 3, 1969, and was decommissioned on February 3, 2015 after 45 years of Coast Guard service. As of January 2017, the ship serves in the Bangladesh Navy as . History Construction As all ''Hamilton''-class cutters, ''Rush'' was constructed at Avondale Shipyard near New Orleans, Louisiana and launched November 16, 1968, she was the fifth Coast Guard Cutter to be named after Secretary of the Treasury Richard Rush, the nation's eighth Secretary of Treasury. Record Storm During the 1970's ''Rush'' was based out of Alameda Island in San Francisco Bay and performed regular patrols of Alaskan waters and the Bering Sea. ''Rush'' has the distinction of having ridden out "the most powerful storm, at least in terms of depth of pressure, to affect Alaska in modern history" of Octo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Doorman-class Frigate
The ''Karel Doorman''-class frigates are a series of eight multi-purpose vessels built for the Royal Netherlands Navy. Its namesake is Karel Doorman, a Dutch naval officer whose ship was struck by a Japanese torpedo in the battle of the Java Sea in 1942, and who, as a result of which, went down with his ship. Design history In the 1970s, Dutch naval authorities deemed the s old, outdated, and therefore in need of replacement. This led to the construction of the ''Karel Doorman''-class frigates in the mid 1980s after the Dutch navy had finalised the design and requirements for the frigates at the end of the 1970s and early 1980s. The design of the M-frigates was made in-house at the Royal Netherlands Navy, in close collaboration with construction site De Schelde in Vlissingen and design agency Nevesbu. For the first time stealth techniques were used in the design, such as the sloping walls of the bridge section. Much attention was also paid to the care and facilities for the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Van Heemskerck-class Frigate
The ''Jacob van Heemskerck''-class frigate was a class of frigates of the Royal Netherlands Navy. They were designed to be an air defence version of the . The helicopter was replaced by a Standard medium range surface-to-air missile (SAM) system and associated radars. Two ships were built for the Royal Netherlands Navy. In 2005 they were sold to the Chilean Navy. Design In the early 1970s, the ''Koninklijke Marine'' (Royal Netherlands Navy) developed what became known as the 'Standard' frigate, with anti-submarine and anti-aircraft versions using common hull designs and machinery and as far as practicable, common electronics and sensors.Gardiner and Chumbley 1995, p. 277. It was planned to order 12 anti-submarine variants (the ), enough to equip two task groups (each led by a guided-missile frigate) to operate in the Atlantic, while a single anti-aircraft version would act as flagship for a third task group, consisting of the older s to operate in the English Channel and Nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chilean Navy
The Chilean Navy ( es, Armada de Chile) is the naval warfare service branch of the Chilean Armed Forces. It is under the Ministry of National Defense. Its headquarters are at Edificio Armada de Chile, Valparaiso. History Origins and the Wars of Independence (1817–1830) The origins of the Chilean Navy date back to 1817, when General Bernardo O'Higgins prophetically declared after the Chilean victory at the Battle of Chacabuco that a hundred such victories would count for nothing if Chile did not gain control of the sea. This led to the development of the Chilean Navy, and the first legal resolutions outlining the organization of the institution were created. Chile's First National Fleet and the Academy for Young Midshipmen, which was the predecessor of the current Naval Academy, were founded, as well as the Marine Corps and the Supply Commissary. The first commander of the Chilean Navy was Manuel Blanco Encalada. Famous British naval commander Lord Cochrane, who for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halifax-class Frigate
The ''Halifax''-class frigate, also referred to as the City class, is a class of multi-role patrol frigates that have served the Royal Canadian Navy since 1992. The class is the outcome of the Canadian Patrol Frigate Project, which dates to the mid-1970s. was the first of an eventual twelve Canadian-designed and Canadian-built vessels which combine traditional anti-submarine capabilities with systems to deal with surface and air threats as well. All ships of the class are named after a major city in each province ( St. John's, Halifax, Charlottetown, Fredericton, Québec City, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary and Vancouver) plus the cities of Ottawa and Montreal. In 2007, the Government of Canada announced a planned refit of the ''Halifax'' class which is known as the Halifax Class Modernization Project (HCMP) of which the Frigate Equipment Life Extension (FELEX) project is a part. In November 2008, a Lockheed Martin Canada-led team including Saab AB, Elisra, IBM Canada, CAE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loch-class Frigate
The Loch class was a class of anti-submarine (A/S) frigate A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied somewhat. The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed an ... built for the Royal Navy and her Allies of World War II, Allies during World War II. They were an innovative design based on the experience of three years of fighting in the Battle of the Atlantic and attendant technological advances. Some shipyards had trouble building these larger ships, which led to widespread use of the Castle-class corvette, introduced around the same time. Design The Lochs were based upon the hull of the preceding with increased sheer (ship), sheer and flare (ship), flare to improve seakeeping and modified to suit it to mass pre-fabrication, with sections riveted or welding, welded together at the shipyard. Accordingly, as many curves as possible ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Canadian Navy
The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN; french: Marine royale canadienne, ''MRC'') is the naval force of Canada. The RCN is one of three environmental commands within the Canadian Armed Forces. As of 2021, the RCN operates 12 frigates, four attack submarines, 12 coastal defence vessels, eight patrol class training vessels, two offshore patrol vessels, and several auxiliary vessels. The RCN consists of 8,570 Regular Force and 4,111 Primary Reserve sailors, supported by 3,800 civilians. Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee is the current commander of the Royal Canadian Navy and chief of the Naval Staff. Founded in 1910 as the Naval Service of Canada (French: ''Service naval du Canada'') and given royal sanction on 29 August 1911, the RCN was amalgamated with the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian Army to form the unified Canadian Armed Forces in 1968, after which it was known as Maritime Command (French: ''Commandement maritime'') until 2011. In 2011, its historical title of "Royal Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgarian Navy
The Bulgarian Navy ( bg, Военноморски сили на Република България, Voennomorski sili na Republika Balgariya, lit=Naval Forces of the Republic of Bulgaria) is the navy of the Republic of Bulgaria and forms part of the Bulgarian Armed Forces. It has been largely overlooked in the reforms that Bulgaria had to go through in order to comply with NATO standards, mostly because of the great expense involved and the fact that naval assaults are not considered to be a great concern for the country's security. That is why three of the four s (excluding ''Slava'') are now docked and have been out of operation for some time. The last one was decommissioned in November 2011. Only the more modern frigates, corvettes and missile crafts are on active duty. The Bulgarian Navy is centred in two main bases. One is near the city of Varna. The other is by the village of Atia, near the city of Burgas. Operational history First Balkan War The Bulgarian Navy's firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wielingen-class Frigate
The ''Wielingen'' class is a class of four multi-functional frigates built for the Belgian Navy. The ships are named after sandbanks in the North Sea, not far from the Belgian coast, or sea routes. The lead ship is named after the Wielingen sandbank. History The Belgian government decided on 22 December 1970 to order four new frigates, which would be built by Belgian shipyards. These ships would replace the old escort ships of the . The last of these left service in 1969. Project studies had already begun in 1964 with the advice of the Dutch Navy and continued in 1971 in cooperation with the two Belgian shipyards, Boelwerf, at Temse, and Cockerill, at Hoboken, Antwerp. The construction of the ships began in 1974. The four ships, , , , and , were commissioned in the following years. The fourth frigate, ''Westhinder'', was decommissioned in 1993 according to the reforms of Defence Minister Leo Delcroix. She had previously been damaged during an anti-submarine exercise off t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koni-class Frigate
The Koni class is the NATO reporting name for an anti-submarine warfare frigate built by the Soviet Union. They were known in the Soviet Union as Project 1159. 14 were built in Zelenodolsk shipyard between 1975 and 1988. They were originally intended to replace the older s, but were instead chosen as a design for export to various friendly navies. The Koni I sub class were designed for European waters and the Koni II were made for warmer waters. One ship was retained by the Soviets in the Black Sea for training foreign crews. Only a few of these vessels remain in service today. The Romanian Tetal-class corvettes were similar. Design Armament The armament consisted of two AK-726 twin gun mountings and two AK-230 twin anti-aircraft guns, 4 P-15M Termit anti-ship missile launchers were fitted in some ships, depth charge and naval mine racks were fitted at the stern. The Libyan vessels had a redesigned layout with the P-15M missiles forward of the bridge. The ships had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garcia-class Frigate
''Garcia''-class frigates were United States Navy warships. These frigates were originally ocean escorts bearing the hull classification DE until 1975. The ships were commissioned between 1964 and 1968 and decommissioned between 1988 and 1990. Description Frigates fulfill a Protection of Shipping (POS) mission as anti-submarine warfare (ASW) combatants for amphibious expeditionary forces, underway replenishment groups and merchant convoys. The ''Garcia'' class was a larger version of the . The ''Garcias'' were followed by the similar ''Brooke'' class, which was given guided missile armament. The ''Bronstein'' ocean escort was a response to the development of high speed nuclear submarines in the late 1950s. They were powered by steam turbines instead of diesel engines and incorporated a first class anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon system: the SQS-26BX sonar, MK 112 ASROC rocket launcher, and MK 32 torpedo tubes. Gun (naval artillery) armament (MK 33 3 inch/50 ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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