First ironclad frigate

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Category

Invention

Place

Europe

Date

1859

Reference

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A frigate is "the vessel next lower in size to a ship of the line," which is a "man-of-war large enough to take its place in line of battle." [Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare, p. 382, 384]

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