Frigate
Parent Type: Surface Combatants
Quick Facts
- Era
- 17th Century–Present
- Role
- Escort and patrol warship
- Notable For
- Versatility and escort duties
Frigates have served the Royal Navy in many forms across centuries
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Classes in this Type Tree
Other / Unspecified (2)
Cold War (10)
- Leander-class frigate – 26 built
- Rothesay-class frigate – 9 built
- Type 12 frigate – 23 built
- Type 14 frigate – 12 built
- Type 21 frigate – 8 built
- Type 22 frigate – 14 built
- Type 41 frigate – 4 built
- Type 61 frigate – 4 built
- Type 81 frigate – 7 built
- Whitby-class frigate – 6 built
Modern (3)
- Type 23 frigate – 16 built
- Type 26 frigate – 8 built
- Type 31 frigate – 5 built
WWII (1)
- Loch-class frigate – 28 built
Ships in this Type Tree
Decommissioned (26)
- HMS Leander (F109) – Leander-class frigate
- HMS Amazon (F169) – Type 21 frigate
- HMS Active (F171) – Type 21 frigate
- HMS Argyll (F231) – Type 23 frigate
- HMS Argyll (F231) – Type 23 frigate
- HMS Cleopatra (F28) – Leander-class frigate
- HMS Indefatigable (1784) – Fifth-rate frigate
- HMS Phoebe (1795) – Fifth-rate frigate
- HMS Surprise (1796) – Fifth-rate frigate
- HMS Acasta (1797) – Fifth-rate frigate
- HMS Amphion (1798) – Fifth-rate frigate
- HMS Euryalus (1803) – Fifth-rate frigate
- HMS Shannon (1806) – Fifth-rate frigate
- HMS Doris (1807) – Leda-class frigate
- HMS Ambuscade (F172) – Type 21 frigate
- HMS Arrow (F173) – Type 21 frigate
- HMS Alacrity (F174) – Type 21 frigate
- HMS Avenger (F185) – Type 21 frigate
- HMS Broadsword (F88) – Type 22 frigate
- HMS Brilliant (F90) – Type 22 frigate
- HMS Boxer (F92) – Type 22 frigate
- HMS Beaver (F93) – Type 22 frigate
- HMS London (F95) – Type 22 frigate
- HMS Sheffield (F96) – Type 22 frigate
- HMS Coventry (F98) – Type 22 frigate
- HMS Cornwall (F99) – Type 22 frigate
In service (6)
- HMS Iron Duke (F234) – Type 23 frigate
- HMS Richmond (F239) – Type 23 frigate
- HMS Kent (F78) – Type 23 frigate
- HMS Kent (F78) – Type 23 frigate
- HMS Sutherland (F81) – Type 23 frigate
- HMS St Albans (F83) – Type 23 frigate
Lost (4)
- HMS Pandora (1779) – Sixth-rate frigate
- HMS Sirius (1786) – Sixth-rate frigate
- HMS Guerriere (1799) – Fifth-rate frigate
- HMS Antelope (F170) – Type 21 frigate
Preserved (2)
Related Types
- Anti-Air Destroyer
- Anti-Aircraft Cruiser
- Anti-Submarine Frigate
- Anti-Submarine Warfare Ship
- Armoured Cruiser
- Armoured Gunboat
- Coastal Defence Ship
- Colonial Gunboat
- Convoy Escort Vessel
- Corvette
- Cruiser
- Destroyer
- Destroyer Escort
- Destroyer Leader
- Dispatch Gunboat
- Escort Destroyer
- Escort Sloop
- Fast Attack Craft
- Fleet Destroyer
- Fleet Screening Ship
- Guided Missile Cruiser
- Guided Missile Destroyer
- Guided Missile Frigate
- Gunboat
- Heavy Cruiser
- Hydrofoil
- Light Cruiser
- Littoral Combat Ship
- Missile Boat
- Modular Warship
- Monitor
- Multi-Role Combat Ship
- Ocean Escort Vessel
- Protected Cruiser
- Radar Picket Ship
- River Gunboat
- River Monitor
- Scout Cruiser
- Stealth Destroyer
- Stealth Frigate
- Submarine Chaser
- Torpedo Boat
- Torpedo Boat Destroyer
- Torpedo Boat Destroyer Leader