frigate-built

She was an old-fashioned, frigate-built, full-rigged ship, such as one seldom happens on now, her quarter-galleries, chain-plates, to 'gallant bulwarks, and single topsail-yards being all out of date among the ship-builders of to-day.

Stories by English Authors: the Sea Various

England, I was given the command of a batch of 300 time-expired men on board the _Renown_, one of Green's frigate-built ships which was chartered for their conveyance.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

Its ponderous, frigate-built merchantmen ceased to dominate the British commerce with China and India and were sold or broken up.

The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors Ralph Delahaye Paine 1898

The one first sighted was the frigate-built corvette "Cyane," of thirty-four guns; and the second was the sloop-of-war "Levant," of twenty-one guns.

The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

The new sloops that I have mentioned as being built proved themselves the best possible vessels for this kind of work; they were fast enough to escape from most cruisers of superior force, and were overmatches for any British flush-decked ship, that is, for any thing below the rank of the frigate-built corvettes of the _Cyane's_ class.

The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888

The first of these was the frigate-built ship corvette _Cyane_,

The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888

The largest sloops were also frigate-built, carrying twenty-two 32-pound carronades on the main-deck, and twelve lighter guns on the quarter-deck and forecastle, with a crew of 180.

The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888

She was frigate-built, seven hundred and forty tons measurement, her three masts accurately parallel, raking slightly aft, and stayed to a hair, while her snow-white canvas was more beautifully cut than that of many a yacht.

A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story Harry Collingwood 1886

The "Cyane," a frigate-built ship, carried a battery of carronades: thirty 32-pounders, two 18-pounders.

Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2 1877

IN the last century -- and many centuries before the last; but it is about the eighteenth that I am specially speaking -- long before steamers and railways, or even frigate-built ships and flying coaches were dreamt of, when an Englishman went abroad, he stopped there.

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861