The base also houses training facilities for the new frigates and submarines.
The captain of the new leading French frigate waited, perhaps in indecision.
Britain needs foreign markets to keep the per-unit costs of the new frigates down enough to keep them affordable.
To replace them, a class of eight new frigates will be built under the SEA 5000 acquisition project.
Longford described her as "a very fine frigate, almost new".
The new frigate had been fitted out with an impressive amount of fine worked wood panneling in the ward room and other joint facilities.
In 1983, the federal government approved the budget for the design and construction of the first batch of six new frigates.
On the other hand I can tell you the names of their new frigates.
This new frigate was to be of wholly Indian design and manufacture.
Destroyers replaced by new frigates were formed into mobile support groups able to move rapidly to convoys coming under attack.