We found two or three other frigates lying there, and several sloops-of-war and corvettes and brigs.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
The "Falkland," built at Portsmouth about 1690, and carrying 54 guns, was the earliest of these, but after her time corvettes, sloops-of-war, and frigates were launched in New England yards to fight for the king.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot
Second, The supply of a fleet of fourteen sail-of the line, seven frigates and seven brigs or corvettes, armed and manned.
"Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, v10"
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne