In the sailing fleet - a military three-masted ship with full sailing arms with one or two open and closed gun decks.nnThe frigate differed from sailing liners with smaller size and artillery armament and was intended for both long-range reconnaissance, that is, for the benefit of the linear fleet and for the cruiser service - independent combat operations on sea and ocean communications in order to protect trade or capture and destroy merchant ships of the enemy. In this sense, frigates are the predecessors of cruisers.nnThe term `frigate`, in the era of the sailing fleet, was quite arbitrary unofficial, as the name of the class of ships was rarely used. In the British Navy, sailing frigates corresponded to ships of the sixth and fifth rank battleships - ships of the fourth rank and above.

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