Sentence examples for frigate during from inspiring English sources

The Minder was under the guns of a British frigate during the bombardment.

According to Pentagon and Navy officials, five small patrol boats belonging to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps charged a three-ship Navy convoy, maneuvering around and between an American destroyer, cruiser and frigate during a tense half-hour encounter.

Three years earlier, Iranian mines blew up and almost sank the USS Samuel B. Roberts, an American frigate, during the so-called Tanker War.

The mission, formerly known as EUNAVFOR MED (European Union Naval Force in the Mediterranean), was recently renamed Sophia after a baby that was born aboard a German frigate during a rescue in August.

The various captains had been consulted, including Henry Meriton, who in his ship Exeter had captured a frigate during the Action of 4 August 1800, a disastrous French attack on a convoy of East Indiamen off Brazil.

Ceylon was an unusual ship, constructed by the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) in Bombay as an East Indiaman merchant ship designed to operate as a 32 gun frigate during wartime.

It was built in 1220 as a defence against Viking raiders and later became a stronghold for the Mackenzie clan, before being reduced to rubble in 1719 by British Navy frigates during the Jacobite wars.

His good service led to a prime posting in command of a squadron despatched to hunt down and neutralise the American super frigates during the War of 1812.

The Action of 18 June 1793 was the first decisive and one of the most celebrated encounters between British and French frigates during the French Revolutionary Wars.

The Action of 13 September 1810 was an inconclusive frigate engagement during the Napoleonic Wars between British Royal Navy and French Navy frigates during which a British frigate was defeated by two French vessels near Isle de France (now Mauritius), but British reinforcements were able to recapture the ship before the French could secure her.

When Unicorn and Doris reappeared the following morning, they were operating as scouts for Bridport's fleet, which had finally left port at the start of the new year and had encountered the frigates during the night.