>>(For those of you who don't understand, the USS Constitution was
>>classified as a Frigate when she was built, and the closest modern
>>equivalent would, IIRC, be a Battlecruiser...)
>
>More accurate than you might know, actually.
>
I knew it was somewhere in there, I just couldn't remember where in the Cruiser<->Battleship range she was...

>In the British Navy, 'sloops' and 'frigates' roughly corresponded to
>light and heavy cruisers, where ships of the line were the battleships
>of the age. The American-constructed frigates, however, carried
>substantially more guns that a British frigate of similar tonnage,
>giving the American ship a decided throw-weight advantage.
>
IIRC, 'frigates' were also generally faster than most other warships of their size, hence the term 'fast frigates'. And we always did tend to build 'em bigger on this side of the pond :)

(No, I'm not British, I just use their terms on occasion :)

>As a suggested division of warship class designations for UF
>(considering there's a -lot- of overlap):
<snip>

As long as you're not using modern US Navy designations... Frigates are now small, and some Destroyers are bigger (size and weight) than most Cruisers... *sigh*

Offsides

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