corvette

Smaller than a destroyer but bigger than a corvette, they perform a range of missions at sea, from escorting bigger ships to mine warfare and hunting submarines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

Robert Brovdi, the commander of Ukraine's unmanned systems, said on Telegram that the corvette Boikiy was struck.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

China and Iran deployed destroyer warships, while Russia and the United Arab Emirates sent corvette vessels.

From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026

At least two warships could be seen in the photos, one whose gangway identified it as the Chinese navy corvette Wenshan.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

Sloop′-of-war, formerly a vessel, of whatever rig, between a corvette and a gun-vessel, constituting the command of a commander, carrying from ten to eighteen guns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

President Trump has weighed in on some of the plans to field a mix of large warships and smaller corvettes, the Journal has reported.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

Its maritime arm dispatched frigates and corvettes to patrol the coastal waters with little event.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2024

Soon the two corvettes were docked at Ream - and either they, or identical replacements, have stayed there for most of this year.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2024

For many years, Israel’s three Sa’ar 5 corvettes were its largest warships, about the size of frigates.

From Salon ● May 19, 2024

Those of 28 guns, frigate-built; that is, having guns protected by an upper deck, with guns on the quarter-deck and forecastle; ship-sloops, in contradistinction to corvettes and sloops.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir