Examples from literature

• Frigates were ever on the watch in the Straits to chase any French vessels that left port. 
• He was preparing to board, the frigates at the time running ten knots, when the French ship surrendered. 
• Near her was another of the same large class, together with a Turkish frigate and a corvette. 
• The bags are piled in neat pyramids, or in other forms, sometimes on the booms before the boats, and sometimes in a square mass on the after part of the quarter-deck of a frigate. 
• This vessel was the English frigate Macedonian cruising along the American coast, and at this time short of hands.