Wakefield – launched November 1656, renamed HMS Richmond in 1660.Cheriton – launched 16 April 1656, renamed HMS Speedwell in 1660.Grantham – launched 1654, renamed HMS Garland in 1660.Basing – launched 26 April 1654, renamed HMS Guernsey in 1660.Selby – launched 22 April 1654, renamed HMS Eagle in 1660.Fagons – launched, renamed HMS Milford in 1660.Islip – launched 25 March 1654 (wrecked 24 July 1655).Fifth rates were essentially two-decked vessels, with a demi-battery on the lower deck and a lesser number of guns of lesser power on the upper deck (as well as even smaller guns on the quarter deck). The vessels were considered too lightly armed and built to stand in the line of battle. Prior to 1626 when the rating system was established, these vessels were known as pinnaces.
Prizes taken from enemy naval forces and added to the Royal Navy are also excluded. As the Royal Navy was not officially created until 1660, vessels from the preceding (Commonwealth) era are only included where they survived past 1660. were not ships of the line) many of the earliest ships described as English frigates, such as Constant Warwick of 1645, were third-rate or fourth-rate ships of the line and thus are not listed below. In this list, the term is restricted to fifth rates and sixth rates which did not form part of the battlefleet (i.e. Subsequently, the term was applied to any vessel with these characteristics, even to a third-rate or fourth-rate ship of the line. The name originated at the end of the 16th century, the first "frigats" being generally small, fast-sailing craft, in particular those employed by Flemish privateers based on Dunkirk and Flushing. The initial meaning of frigate in English/British naval service was a fast sailing warship, usually with a relatively low superstructure and a high length:breadth ratio-as distinct from the heavily armed but slow "great ships" with high fore- and after-castles. 5 44-gun fifth rates from 1750 – by class.4.2 Sixth-rate frigates from 1719 to 1750.4.1 Fifth-rate frigates from 1719 to 1750.3.2 Sixth-rate frigates from 1688 to 1719.2.2 Sixth-rate frigates from 1660 to 1688.2.1 Fifth-rate frigates from 1660 to 1688.