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On 15/09/2014 17:49, a425couple wrote:
>> On 12/09/2014 20:19, patricia@school.study wrote:
>>> is a Frigate smaller than a destroyer?
>>
>> Yes.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_ship
>
> Generally, yes.
> But as that site points out, the USN did some really weird
> categories around the 1970s.
>
> USS California, nuclear powered, 10,600 tons, 587' long
> and they called it a frigate.
>
> from yours
> "From the 1950s to the 1970s, the United States Navy commissioned ships
> classed as guided missile frigates which were actually anti-aircraft
> warfare cruisers built on destroyer-style hulls. Some of these ships-the
> Bainbridge, Truxtun, California and Virginia classes-were
> nuclear-powered. These "frigates" were roughly mid-way in size between
> cruisers and destroyers. This was similar to the use of the term
> "frigate" during the age of sail during which it referred to a
> medium-sized warship, but it was inconsistent with conventions used by
> other contemporary navies which regarded frigates as being smaller than
> destroyers. During the 1975 ship reclassification, the large American
> frigates were redesignated as cruisers or destroyers, while ocean
> escorts (the American classification for ships smaller than destroyers)
> were renamed as frigates."
So it all came right in the end.
;-)
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