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  • The Coast Guard picked up 10 people from Tern Island in French Frigate Shoals yesterday using a C-130 Hercules plane out of Barbers Point, arriving in Honolulu at 3 p.m.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • It is called the Frigate-bird, and has never been known to rest on the sea; it lives upon sea-creatures, but makes its nest on shore.

    Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham

  • The case is that my mother had previously told my aunt, without restriction, that a sloop (which my aunt calls a Frigate) was reserved in the East for Charles; whereas you had replied to Miss Irvine's enquiries on the subject with less explicitness & more caution.

    Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796

  • Barber, has been pressed on board the Stag Frigate, Captain Angel, and our lexicographer is in great distress.

    Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767

  • Barber, has been pressed on board the Stag Frigate, Captain Angel, and our lexicographer is in great distress.

    Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 James Boswell 1767

  • "Frigate" changed from a term for a moderately large ship to the name of the "ocean escorts" that were

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Britain is talking to Northern European countries, including Norway and the Baltic states, about closer military ties, and to Turkey about helping to build its Type 26 Frigate, a ship due to enter service in the early 2020s.

    Europeans Retreat on Defense Spending Stephen Fidler 2011

  • When the Frigate fired we saw the flash, and a column of smoke sent rapidly forward over the waves, and after about seven pulsations came the report, which thunderd along amidst the the cliffs till echo seemd tired of mocking.

    Letter 290 2009

  • Frigate came into the Harbour and fired several guns to announce the arrival of

    Letter 290 2009

  • One "possibility" is that the Turks would help build Britain's Type 26 Frigate, a type of naval ship due to enter service in the early 2020s.

    U.K., Turkey Near Military Accord Alistair MacDonald 2011

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