Frigate vs Schooner - What's the difference?
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(nautical) An obsolete type of sailing warship with a single continuous gun deck, typically used for patrolling, blockading, etc, but not in line of battle.
(nautical) A 19th c. type of warship combining sail and steam propulsion, typically of ironclad timber construction, supplementing and superseding sailing ships of the battle line until made obsolete by the development of the solely steam-propelled iron battleship.
(nautical) A modern type of warship, smaller than a destroyer, originally (WWII) introduced as an anti-submarine vessel but now general purpose.
(nautical) A sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.
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(Australia) A glass of beer, of a size which varies between states ().
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(US) A large goblet or drinking glass, used for lager or ale ().
In nautical terms the difference between frigate and schooner
is that frigate is a modern type of warship, smaller than a destroyer, originally (WWII) introduced as an anti-submarine vessel but now general purpose while schooner is a sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.frigate
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Noun
(en noun)Coordinate terms
* destroyer * corvette * sloop * ship of the line * third rate * second rate * first rate * stone frigateDerived terms
* frigatebird * stone frigateschooner
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(wikipedia schooner)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land.}}
page 181,
- Designed by Frank Payne's renowned Boston design office, and built in 1928 of longleaf yellow pine, this 82-footer has been a racing schooner' — a staysail '''schooner''' — since the heyday of ''Class-A'' ocean racing in ' schooners during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
page xxi,
- In addition to the square-rigged sailing ships, the schooners were the second largest group of large sailing vessels.
page 240,
- Unfortunately, anyone looking for a schooner' today has limited choices. In the used boat market there are always some wooden hulls available, and occasionally ones of steel or aluminum, but fiberglass-hulled ' schooners are harder to come by.
page 67,
- Foaming schooners of beer grew ever larger and more numerous as the crimson February suns went to their rest.
page 94,
- And needless to say, the Western Australia row will eventually be filled in as well, though not before drinking a schooner of the amber nectar in Perth.
page 59,
- For a true Adelaide experience, head for the bar and order a schooner of Coopers, the local brew, or a glass of SA?s impressive wine.
