Difference between destroyer, corvette and frigate
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In antiquity naval warfare was basically land warfare except on a flammable battle ground and also the ocean will kill you. The difference between a commercial and military boat was basically who was on it. You'd get a bunch of dudes, row your boat up to the other guy, then basically try to battle them to death. Or ram them, as the ship doing the ramming has an advantage, as you get to choose the side and velocities which you slam into them with. Or try to just set them on fire. Sailing ships were at the mercy of the wind, so a lot of these ships were man powered. Archers could kill men but not really do much to a boat. This is where you'd have rowing warships.
Korea at this point built some of the first metal defended ships, basically putting metal spikes on top of the boat to keep Japanese warriors from jumping on their boat, while they would use their superior cannons to blow up the Japanese ships. But these innovations largely were ignored by the west for a long time.
Eventually though technology progressed enough that both larger vessels that could travel longer distances and also wield cannons and military ships started to become more distinct from commercial ships. For a while, fleet battles would basically be like everybody line up at each other and just open fire, to avoid hitting allies. But at some point people realized that naval battles were no longer basically just land battles at sea, and so they started to gain their own military traditions. These are basically the galleons a lot of people imagine when thinking about 1600's sea travel.
Maneuverability and range and crew coordination and a captain's skills would rule the day for a while. The boats were still wooden and so cannon shots would basically obliterate them.
These middle sized ships would try to out range each other, and dance around each other and blow the other person up out of the range of the other guy. These highly maneuverable ships were considered 'Frigate-Built'. They were often too small to just sit there in a line and shoot politely at an enemy, but they weren't meant to.
Smaller, very fast but light weight ships would be used by pirates, with the idea that they could out maneuver and sneak in and kill the crew of a larger ship, then steal it and all the goods and services aboard. This though also required a lot of crew coordination and skillful captaincy, because if any of that failed, they were screwed. They didn't really have many large weapons.
Eventually steam travel allowed for boats to be coated entirely in metal, or 'Ironclad'. These ships were fitted with guns and heavily resistant to the weapons at the time, so for a bit people came back to the idea of just trying to catch them, ram into them and hope they buckle under their own weight and sink.
This didn't last too long as people figured out how to build guns big enough to destroy these Ironclad ships, but it was too late, everything had changed and there was no real going back to purely wooden boats. Ship design improvements allowed for larger, recoil turret guns to be placed on top of the ship rather than relying on the below decks which meant that each gun could have more infrastructure meaning it could be a larger gun without basically tipping the ship over.
Cruisers were invented, which were basically smaller gunboats that would prey upon and raid commercial trading lines. They could get into places swift, and sink ships denying enemies resources that were at the time increasingly becoming more and more dependent on overseas trade as the distances these trade ships started to increase and the times they traveled decreased in ways that made them valuable more so than ever before.
Battleships were also invented around this time, which were basically just giant fortresses with as many guns as you can figure out how to pack on a boat. You would field distinct fleets, cruisers as gunboats to harass supply lines and break out the battleships when you wanted a real punch up.
Range and power became the major keys here, battleships weren't going nowhere fast and cruisers weren't really capable of putting them down. You needed battleships to take out battleships. Imperial Japan basically as far as the west was concerned popped out no nowhere around this point with some impressive ships and land based guns and slapped around Russia for a bit more or less stunning the world, pretty much the first time an Asian power had contended with a Western on even footing in forever, and putting a stop to Russia basically doing whatever whenever it wanted.
Korea at this point built some of the first metal defended ships, basically putting metal spikes on top of the boat to keep Japanese warriors from jumping on their boat, while they would use their superior cannons to blow up the Japanese ships. But these innovations largely were ignored by the west for a long time.
Eventually though technology progressed enough that both larger vessels that could travel longer distances and also wield cannons and military ships started to become more distinct from commercial ships. For a while, fleet battles would basically be like everybody line up at each other and just open fire, to avoid hitting allies. But at some point people realized that naval battles were no longer basically just land battles at sea, and so they started to gain their own military traditions. These are basically the galleons a lot of people imagine when thinking about 1600's sea travel.
Maneuverability and range and crew coordination and a captain's skills would rule the day for a while. The boats were still wooden and so cannon shots would basically obliterate them.
These middle sized ships would try to out range each other, and dance around each other and blow the other person up out of the range of the other guy. These highly maneuverable ships were considered 'Frigate-Built'. They were often too small to just sit there in a line and shoot politely at an enemy, but they weren't meant to.
Smaller, very fast but light weight ships would be used by pirates, with the idea that they could out maneuver and sneak in and kill the crew of a larger ship, then steal it and all the goods and services aboard. This though also required a lot of crew coordination and skillful captaincy, because if any of that failed, they were screwed. They didn't really have many large weapons.
Eventually steam travel allowed for boats to be coated entirely in metal, or 'Ironclad'. These ships were fitted with guns and heavily resistant to the weapons at the time, so for a bit people came back to the idea of just trying to catch them, ram into them and hope they buckle under their own weight and sink.
This didn't last too long as people figured out how to build guns big enough to destroy these Ironclad ships, but it was too late, everything had changed and there was no real going back to purely wooden boats. Ship design improvements allowed for larger, recoil turret guns to be placed on top of the ship rather than relying on the below decks which meant that each gun could have more infrastructure meaning it could be a larger gun without basically tipping the ship over.
Cruisers were invented, which were basically smaller gunboats that would prey upon and raid commercial trading lines. They could get into places swift, and sink ships denying enemies resources that were at the time increasingly becoming more and more dependent on overseas trade as the distances these trade ships started to increase and the times they traveled decreased in ways that made them valuable more so than ever before.
Battleships were also invented around this time, which were basically just giant fortresses with as many guns as you can figure out how to pack on a boat. You would field distinct fleets, cruisers as gunboats to harass supply lines and break out the battleships when you wanted a real punch up.
Range and power became the major keys here, battleships weren't going nowhere fast and cruisers weren't really capable of putting them down. You needed battleships to take out battleships. Imperial Japan basically as far as the west was concerned popped out no nowhere around this point with some impressive ships and land based guns and slapped around Russia for a bit more or less stunning the world, pretty much the first time an Asian power had contended with a Western on even footing in forever, and putting a stop to Russia basically doing whatever whenever it wanted.
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Frigates are larger than Corvettes but smaller than Destroyers. Frigates are anywhere between 3000 to 5000 tons. Armed with superb anti-air and ASW systems, they are specialized for fleet defense from air attacks and submarines.
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