What is the difference between frigate and sloop?
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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.
(label) A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.
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(label) A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.
A sloop of war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.
Sloop is a coordinate term of frigate.
In nautical terms the difference between frigate and sloop
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 sloop is a single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.frigate
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(en noun)Coordinate terms
* destroyer * corvette * sloop * ship of the line * third rate * second rate * first rate * stone frigateDerived terms
* frigatebird * stone frigatesloop
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(wikipedia sloop)Noun
(en noun)- I stayed in this island for a few days; I believe it could not be above a fortnight; when I and some few more slaves, that were not saleable amongst the rest, from very much fretting, were shipped off in a sloop for North America.