List of frigate classes of the Royal Navy
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This is a list of frigate classes of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom in chronological order.
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[edit] Modern frigates
- River class — 138 ships, 1941–1944
- Colony class — 21 ships
- Captains class — 78 ships
- Loch class — 26 ships
- Bay class — 21 ships (redesigned Loch class for anti-aircraft escort)
- Type 15 — 23 ships (full rebuilds of World War II destroyer hulls)
- Type 16 — 10 ships (partial rebuilds of wartime destroyer hulls)
- Type 41 Leopard class — 4 ships
- Type 61 Salisbury class — 4 ships
- Type 12 Whitby class — 6 ships
- Type 12I Rothesay class — 9 ships
- Type 14 Blackwood class — 12 ships
- Type 81 Tribal class — 7 ships
- Type 12M Leander class — 26 ships (subclasses: 8 Batch 1, 8 Batch 2, 10 Batch 3)
- Type 21 Amazon class — 8 ships
- Type 22 — 14 ships (subclasses: Broadsword 4, Boxer 6, Cornwall 4)
- Type 23 Duke class — 16 ships
[edit] Sail frigates – by class
- Lyme class 28 1748
- Lowestoff class 28 1756
- Coventry class 28 1757
- Minerva class 38 1780
- Latona 38 1781
- 1794 Razees 44 1794
- Boadicea 38 1797
[edit] Sail frigates - alphabeticaly
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- ? 38 (ex-French/Dutch ?, captured 15 August 1809)
- Actaeon - sold 1766
- Africaine 38 - captured by France
- Aigle (ex-French Aigle, captured 1782)
- Amphitrite 38 (1816)
- Andromache (1829)
- Arethusa
- Boadicea 38
- Bombay 40 (c.1793) - renamed Ceylon
- Bon-Acquis (ex-French Bon-Acquis, captured 1757)
- Boreas - sold 1770
- Brilliant 36
- Caroline (ex-French Caroline, captured September 1809)
- Constant Warwick 26 (c.1646)
- Cornwallis 56 (c.1800) - renamed Akbar
- Coventry 28 1757
- Danae (ex-French Danae, captured 1759)
- Diamond 32 (1774)
- Diana (1757) - sold 1793
- Endymion 40, Captured USS President.
- Flora 42
- Freya (ex-Danish Freya, captured 25 July 1800)
- Hastings 32 (1824)
- Hebe 40 (ex-French Hebe, captured 1782)
- Hussar - captured by France 1762
- Indefatigable 44 (build 1784 as a 64 gun ship of the line, razed)
- Iphigenia - captured by France
- Java 38, captured by USS Constitution in 1813
- Latona 38
- Lively 38
- Lutine Transferred from French Royal Navy in 1793.
- Lyme
- Macedonian 38, captured by USS United States 1812
- Madagascar 46 (1822)
- Melampe (ex-French Melampe, captured 1758)
- Minerva
- Nereide 38, captured 1797, sold 1816.
- Newcastle 56, War of 1812
- Orpheus 32 (1773)
- Pallas 36 (1757)
- Phaeton
- Pitt 36 (1805)
- Pomone (ex-French Pomone, captured 1794)
- Rainbow 44
- Resistance 44 - sank 24 July 1798
- Saldanha shipwrecked in Lough Swilly, Donegal, 4 December 1811
- Salsette 36 (1807)
- Santa Leocadia 34 (ex-Spanish Santa Leocadia, captured 1781)
- Santa Margarita 34 (ex-Spanish Santa Margarita, captured 1779)
- Shannon - BU 1765
- Shannon (1806, broken up 1859)
- Sirius 36, scuttled during the Mauritius campaign of 1810.
- Southampton 32 (1757)
- Thetis
- Trent - sold 1764
- Trincomalee 38 (1817) - preserved afloat at Hartlepool, UK
- HMS Unicorn
- Unicorn 46, preserved in Scotland
- Venus (ex-French Venus, captured 17 September 1809)
- Venus 36
- Inconstant class 3 ships — last sail frigates
