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Frigate in sentence

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The great poet Emily Dickinson once said, "There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away."
Can you explain how my client could have known the names of officers on a frigate that joined the Navy only in 2005?
Sinking the Sunshine PolicyLast week's naval battle between North and South Korean warships sank more than a South Korean frigate.
But the reality is starker: the intrusions by Chinese aircraft into Filipino airspace in May;Chinese patrol boats cruising in March in the Recto (Reed) Bank, 85 miles west of the Filipino island of Palawan; and, most serious of all, a Chinese missile frigate firing at Filipino fishing boats in February near Palawan’s Quirino atoll.
France alleges that three Turkish ships accompanying the cargo vessel were “extremely aggressive” toward its frigate, flashing their radar lights three times – a signal indicating imminent engagement.
Turkey denied France’s account, claiming that the French frigate was harassing its ships.
One after another, reports arrived that would profoundly affect public opinion: new observations taken by the transatlantic liner Pereire, the Inman line's Etna running afoul of the monster, an official report drawn up by officers on the French frigate Normandy, dead-earnest reckonings obtained by the general staff of Commodore Fitz-James aboard the Lord Clyde.
A high-speed frigate, the Abraham Lincoln, was fitted out for putting to sea as soon as possible.
The naval arsenals were unlocked for Commander Farragut, who pressed energetically forward with the arming of his frigate.
So the frigate was equipped for a far-off voyage and armed with fearsome fishing gear, but nobody knew where to steer it.
Our baggage was immediately carried to the deck of the frigate.
It was a high-speed frigate furnished with superheating equipment that allowed the tension of its steam to build to seven atmospheres.
The frigate's interior accommodations complemented its nautical virtues.
And so if I'd been delayed by a quarter of an hour or even less, the frigate would have gone without me, and I would have missed out on this unearthly, extraordinary, and inconceivable expedition, whose true story might well meet with some skepticism.
The frigate then went along the New Jersey coast--the wonderful right bank of this river, all loaded down with country homes-- and passed by the forts to salutes from their biggest cannons.
The escort of boats and tenders still followed the frigate and only left us when we came abreast of the lightship, whose two signal lights mark the entrance of the narrows to Upper New York Bay.
The furnaces were stoked; the propeller churned the waves more swiftly; the frigate skirted the flat, yellow coast of Long Island; and at eight o'clock in the evening, after the lights of Fire Island had vanished into the northwest, we ran at full steam onto the dark waters of the Atlantic.
CHAPTER 4Ned LandCOMMANDER FARRAGUT was a good seaman, worthy of the frigate he commanded.
Our frigate would have had fivescore good reasons for renaming itself the Argus, after that mythological beast with 100 eyes!
During the magnificent evening of June 25--in other words, three weeks after our departure--the frigate lay abreast of Cabo Blanco, thirty miles to leeward of the coast of Patagonia.
Off the Falkland Islands on June 30, the frigate came in contact with a fleet of American whalers, and we learned that they hadn't seen the narwhale.
The frigate sailed along the east coast of South America with prodigious speed.
Our course was set for the northwest, and the next day our frigate's propeller finally churned the waters of the Pacific.
In an instant the frigate's deck would become densely populated.
These bearings determined, the frigate took a more decisive westward heading and tackled the seas of the central Pacific.
So the frigate kept well out when passing the Tuamotu, Marquesas, and Hawaiian Islands, then cut the Tropic of Cancer at longitude 132 degrees and headed for the seas of China.
This reaction mounted upward from the bowels of the ship, from the quarters of the bunker hands to the messroom of the general staff; and for certain, if it hadn't been for Commander Farragut's characteristic stubbornness, the frigate would ultimately have put back to that cape in the south.
By then the frigate lay in latitude 31 degrees 15' north and longitude 136 degrees 42' east.
The sea undulated placidly beneath the frigate's stempost.
The order was given to stop, and the frigate merely coasted.
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