#frigates

[illustratus]

The Chase and Capture of the Pallas by John Bentham-Dinsale

[a-disaster-piece]

Fly, my pretties...

(via @nemfrog's header)

[18th-century-mental-health]

This is the link to a petition to help the frigate Shtandart. She was built as a replica of the ship of Peter the Great and is absolutely stunning. She is currently sailing on the French waters but a law was voted to ban her from certain ports because she is Russian. The point is that her crew is not taking part in the Russian/Ukrainian war and left Russia more than ten years ago because they didn't want to support Putin's economy (more details by clicking on the link). So, without getting too political, i think a treasure like her must be protected, as she is part of a rare species of ship replicas; and i'm sharing this link as a sailor who loves the freedom brought by the Sea and who thinks everyone should have the chance to taste that freedom, if only by enjoying the sight of a frigate like her, inviting our minds to wander on dreamy journeys.

[msbarrows]

Been having fun the last couple of days working my way through the "Beachhead" expedition in No Man's Sky, which they put out for a two week re-run starting on N7 day, as its end reward is the SSV Normandy SR1 as a frigate to accompany your freighter and run frigate expeditions (not the same as the special event player quest expeditions - these are daily exploration/combat/trading/manufacturing missions that up to five groups of 1-5 frigates each can be sent on; they return at the end of the mission with currency and items, and sometimes acquire damage you need to repair).

The expedition started me out on a freighter with a starship - in this case a shuttle - to fly around in. I was playing from an established save game, so once I'd repaired my freighter and warped to a new star system I was able to summon the anomaly and 'purchase' my preferred multitool and the starship I'm currently working on fixing up with cargo space and technology augments (a turquoise and blue squid ship).

Ended up doing a little base building, one of the expedition stages involved catching 5 uncommon fish on an ice world (clearly a stage added since the original run of "Beachhead", as they only just added fishing recently). I like having a little shelter where I'm able to be in out of the weather but can cast through an archway into the water to fish, so I started off building a fairly simple little structure hanging off the edge of an elevated island. Later, when I was waiting out a stage that requires running 3 frigate expeditions, I started working further on it.

While I was there adding on to it another player showed up and made use of the base to also fish, which was nice to see (the guy standing on the path holding a spiky red staff weapon). They weren't the only visitor, either. Always nice to encounter other players in game, though they're pretty rare to trip across apart from locations and/or events that concentrate players within specific areas (the game has an ungodly number of worlds to explore: 2 to the 64, or 18.4 quintillion planets spread across 250+ galaxies).

Still waiting on my third frigate expedition to finish (about an hour to go) but I've finished everything else in Beachhead -including claiming my Normandy frigate - and will be able to close it out after that and return my character (and their improved starship) to my regular save.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Kortenaer and Evertsen anti-submarine frigates of the Royal Netherlands Navy.

Dutch vintage postcard

[wallpapers4screen]

[rhk111sblog]

The Flag Officer in Command (FOIC) of the Philippine Navy (PN), Vice Admiral Jose Ezpeleta recently announced during a Press Conference that they will doing a Live-Fire Test of the three of five Missile Systems that they have at the Moment next Month on April 21, 2025 in Mariveles, Bataan.

These three Systems are:

The C-Star Anti-Ship Missile (AShM), the primary Anti-Ship Missile of the Jose Rizal class Guided Missile Frigates;

The Spike Non Line of Sight (NLOS), the primary Weapon of the Acero-class Fast Attack Interdiction Craft-Missile (FAIC-M);

And the Mistral 3, the primary Anti-Air Weapon of the Jose Rizal class Frigates

The PN also has the Spike Extended-Range (ER), the primary Weapon of the Multi-Purpose Attack Craft Mark 3 (MPAC MKIII), but these have been test fired several times before already.

The Philippine Marine Corps (PMC) is technically a Part of the PN, so their BrahMos AshMs counts as under the PN. There were announcements made last Year of 2024 about it being Test-fired, but no News about that came out in the Philippines up to now.

Here is the Link to the Article at the Philippine News Agency (PNA) Website: https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1246251

SOURCE: Major PH Navy Missile Systems to be fired in Balikatan 2025 {Archived Link}

[nylusion]

Searching for high class frigates in No Man's Sky will bring you to many different star systems! Watch as Xycor looks for frigates in live episode 159 of his playthrough series!

[swtechspecs]

Kuat Drive Yards Lancer-Class Frigate

Source: The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels (Del Rey, 1996)

[footnotelovenote]

Baby You're First-Rate

Rated Navy ships in the 17th to 19th centuries [from the Royal Museums Greenwich]

The rating system of the British Royal Navy was used to categorise warships between the 17th and 19th centuries. There were six rates of warship.

A ship’s rate was basically decided by the number of guns she carried, from the largest 120-gun First Rate, down to the Sixth Rate 20-gun ships. Captains commanded rated ships, which were always ship rigged – meaning they had three square-rigged masts.

First Rate

First Rate ships were the biggest of the fleet with their gun batteries carried on three decks. They were generally used as flagships and fought in the centre of the line-of-battle. They were armed with a minimum of 100 heavy cannon, carried a crew of about 850 and were over 2000 tons Builder’s Measure (a formula for calculating the capacity of the ship, not the displacement of the ship as is the practice today).

Second Rate

The Second Rate ships of the line were also three-deckers, but smaller and cheaper. They mounted between 90 and 98 guns, and like the First Rates fought in the centre of the line-of-battle. Generally around the 2000 ton mark, they had a crew of about 750. Unlike the First Rates, which were too valuable to risk in distant stations, the Second Rates often served overseas as flagships. They had a reputation for poor handling and slow sailing.

Third Rate

The most numerous line-of-battle ships were the two-decker Third Rates with 64–80 guns. The most effective and numerous of these was the 74-gun ship, in many ways the ideal compromise of economy, fighting power and sailing performance, which formed the core of the battle fleet. They carried a crew of about 650 men.

Fourth Rate

Two decker ships of 50–60 guns were no longer ‘fit to stand in the line of battle’ by the end of the 18th century. With two decks, their extra accommodation made them suitable flagships for minor overseas stations, while their relatively shallow draught made them useful as headquarter ships for anti-invasion operations in the North Sea and the English Channel. They were also useful as convoy escorts, troopships and even on occasion, as convict transports. In normal service they had a crew of 350 and measured around 1000 tons.

Fifth Rate

These were the frigates, the Navy’s ‘glamour ships’. With their main armament on a single gundeck, they were the fast scouts of the battle fleet, when not operating in an independent cruising role, searching out enemy merchant ships, privateers or enemy fleets. Developed from early-18th century prototypes, the Fifth Rates of Admiral Lord Nelson’s time had a variety of armaments and gun arrangements, from 32–40 guns. Captured enemy frigates were also used in service, and many of the best British-built ships were copied or adapted from French designs. Their tonnage ranged from 700 to 1450 tons, with crews of about 300 men.

Sixth Rate

The Sixth Rates were smaller and more lightly armed frigates, with between 22 and 28 guns, a crew of about 150, and measured 450 to 550 tons.

Find out about ‘unrated’ Royal Navy vessels in the 17th to 19th centuries

[illustratus]

The Sea Wolf Attacks: Lord Cochrane's HMS Pallas engages the French frigate La Minerve and her squadron, Isle d'Aix, 14th May 1806 by Maarten Platje

[ltwilliammowett]

Porcelain Tobacco Jar with dutch frigates, China c.1880

[ts-the-blacksmith]

Lego MOC ship

French Frigate "Saint Germain" - PART 2

designed by TS Kang(@art_house_colts, instagram)

You may enjoy a video about this ship on my YouTube.

(BGM - Jean Marie Leclair, Violin Concerto)

[cosmicwhoreo]

Oh, I've never posted any of Albatross' first mates, have I?

Harpies, just like the rest of Alba's crew. With their own reasons for following the often cruel captain.

They're jus a couple of dudes, lads... Friendssss...??? The Lover that doesn't wanna be a fighter, and the Hall Monitor

[finchwingart]

BURDS during a speed sketch session today with artsafari

[clove-pinks]

Sketch after a model of a seventeenth century Dutch frigate by Willem Gruyter jr. (1827 - 1880)