Stone frigate
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stone-frigate-169-9333553
title:
Stone frigate
text:
A stone frigate is a naval establishment on land. 'Stone frigate' is an informal term which has its origin in Britain's Royal Navy (RN), after its use of Diamond Rock, an island off Martinique, as a 'sloop of war' to harass the French in 1803–1804. The Royal Navy was prohibited from ruling over land, so the land was commissioned as a ship. The command of this first stone frigate was given to Commodore Hood's first lieutenant, James Wilkes Maurice, who, with cannon taken off the Commodore's ship,
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Naval establishment on land
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_frigate
date created:
2005-01-03T18:30:07Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T14:05:28Z
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