From the launch of HMS Dreadnought the navies basically consisted of these
types:
Battleships meant to fight the naval battles as the old ships of the line.
Big Slow ships with heavy guns, and heavy armor.
Cruisers mainly for raiding commercial shipping.
Fast enough to outrun the battleship and with enough guns to quickly sink
merchant ships.
Torpedoboats to hunt battleships with superior speed and torpedoes.
Torpedoboat destroyers as close in defensive escorts.
Between the wars this evolved only little, and the torpedoboats and
torpedoboat destroyers became one type, in the Royal Navy known as the Fleet
Destroyer. These were all round escorts for heavy units.
At the outbreak of WW two the need for convoy escorts rose and the names
frigate and corvette was used once again, mainly for convoy escorts. These
were “cheaper” and simpler that the destroyers and was mainly for
Anti-Submarine Warfare. The frigates were often built at specialized yards
used to naval vessels and with a speed in excess of most merchant ships,
while the corvettes were built at civilian yards, the most numerous (Flower
class) was based on a whaling boat, with speeds similar to the vessels they
were protecting.
After the war, these differences kind of disappeared, most of today’s
frigates are all round warfare units, and are the “big” ships of many
smaller navies. To my knowledge only the US and the Russians have cruisers
today and a few more have destroyers too.
Claus Gustafsen
MCPO RDN
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"®i©ardo" <here@glorious-somerset.uk> wrote in message...
> 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."
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