List of frigate classes

See also: List of frigate classes by country and List of frigate classes in service

This list of frigate classes includes all post–World War II frigate classes listed alphabetically.

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• 0–9
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

Frigate class	Number of ships	Notes
A
Absalon	2
Abukuma	6
Aconit	1
Adelaide	6	derivative of Oliver Hazard Perry class
Admiral Gorshkov	3
Admiral Grigorovich	3
Admiral Pereira da Silva	3
Admiral Pitka	1
Ahmad Yani	6	ex-Dutch Van Speijk class
Akebono	1
Al-Aziz	1	MEKO 200 design, three under construction
Al Madinah	4
Al Riyadh	3
Aldebaran	4	ex-US Cannon class
Allende	4	ex-US Knox class
Almirante Brown	4	MEKO 360 design
Almirante Padilla	4	built in Germany
Alpino	2
Alvand	4	built in Britain for the Iranian Navy
Álvaro de Bazán	5
Amiral Petre Barbuneanu	4
Andrés Bonifacio	4	modified ex-US Casco class, all decommissioned
Anzac	10	MEKO 200 design, built by Tenix in Williamstown, Vic, Australia
Aradu	1	MEKO 360 design
Artigliere	4
Asahi	2	ex-US Cannon class
Aung Zeya	1	built in Myanmar
Azopardo	2
B
Baden-Württemberg	4
Baleares	5	modified Knox class
Bangabandhu	1	modified Ulsan class
Baptista de Andrade	4
Barbaros	4	MEKO 200 design
Barroso	1
Bay	21
Bditelny	19	see Burevestnik class
Beograd	2
Bergamini	4
Berk	2
Bessmennyy	10
Bhumibol Adulyadej	1
Brahmaputra	3	built by GRSE; Indian Navy: 2000–present
Brandenburg	4
Bravo	2
Bremen	8
Bronstein	2	FF 1963
Brooke	6	FFG 1966 to 1968
Bung Tomo	3
Burevestnik	40
C
Canterbury (Leander)	2
Captain	78	US built destroyer escorts
Cassard	2
Centauro	4
Chao Phraya	4	Chinese Jianghu III class
Chengdu	4
Cheng Kung	8
Chi Yang	8	ex-US Knox class
Chien Yang	12
Chikugo	11
Claud Jones	4
Commandant Rivière	9	French built, decommissioned 3 ships sold to Uruguay
Condell	4	British built Leander class
Constellation	20 (planned)
Contre-Amiral Eustatiu Sebastian	2
D
D'Estienne d'Orves	17
Daegu	8
Damyat	2	ex-US Knox class
Dat Assawari	1	Vosper Mk 7 design
Datu Kalantiaw	3	ex-US Cannon class
De Zeven Provinciën	4
Dealey	13
Dewantara	2	training ship
E
El Fateh	1	ex-British destroyer Zenith
Elli	10	ex-Dutch Kortenaer class
Eloy Alfaro	2	ex-British Leander class
Eolo	2
Erradii	2	MEKO 200 design
Espora	6	MEKO 140 design
F
Fatahillah	3
Floréal	6
Formidable	6
FREMM	22+(24)	twenty-seven planned
Fridtjof Nansen	5	derivative of Álvaro de Bazán class
G
Gabya	8	ex-US Oliver Hazard Perry class
Garcia	11	10 FF and 1 AGFF ship, 1964–1968
General K. Pulaski	2	ex-US Oliver Hazard Perry class
Georges Leygues	7
Gepard	6
Godavari	3	built by MDL; Indian Navy: 1983–present
Good Hope	3	derivative of D'Estienne d'Orves class
Greenhalgh	4	ex-UK Broadsword class (Batch 1)
Gregorio del Pilar	3	ex-US Hamilton class
Gremyashchiy	1
H
Halifax	12
Hamilton	12
Hang Tuah	1
Horizon	4
Hydra	4	MEKO 200 design
I
Ikazuchi	2
Incheon	6
Inhauma	4
Ipiros	1	ex-US Knox class; two others decommissioned
Ishikari	1
Isuzu	4
Iver Huitfeldt	3
J
Jacob van Heemskerck	2	1986
João Belo	3
João Coutinho	6
Jose Rizal	2
Jupiter	2
K
Kang Ding	6
Karel Doorman	8	1991–1995
Kasturi	2
Knox	46	46 FF, 1969–1974
Kola	8
Köln	6
Koni	14
Kotor	2
Kortenaer	12	1978–1983
Krivak	40	See Burevestnik class.
Kyan Sittha	2
L
La Fayette	5
Le Corse	4
Le Normand	14
Leander	44
Legend	9
Legkiy	2
Lekiu	2
Loch	32
Lupo	4
M
Maestrale	8
Maharaja Lela		2 + 4
Makut Rajakumarn	1
Mărășești	1
Mariscal Sucre	6
Martadinata	2	Sigma-class design
Marte	2
Martha Khristina Tiyahahu	3	ex-UK Tribal class, all decommissioned
Meliton Carvajal	4	Italian-built Lupo class
Mirka	18
Mohammed V	2	Floréal class
Mogami	3
Moudge	5	Iranian built
Mubarak	4	ex-US Oliver Hazard Perry class
N
Najim al Zafir	2	Chinese Jianghu III class
Najin	2
Naresuan	2
Neustrashimyy	2
Nilgiri	6	built by MDL; Indian Navy: 1972–2010
Niterói	7
O
Obuma	1
Oliver Hazard Perry	26	2 with the Polish Navy (as General K. Pulaski class), 4 with the Egyptian Navy (as Mubarak class), 1 with the Royal Bahrain Naval Forces, 8 with the Turkish Navy (as Gabya class), 1 with Pakistan Navy (as Alamgir class) and 10 with the United States Navy
Oslo	5
P
Para	4
Peder Skram	2
Petya	54
Pham Ngu Lao	1	former seaplane tender
Phutthayotfa Chulalok	2	ex-US Knox class
Pizarro	8
Prestonian	21	modified River class
R
Rahmat	1	decommissioned 2004 and retired
Reformador	1	Sigma-class design
Regele Ferdinand	2	ex-UK Type 22 frigate
Riga	69
Rio Damuji	2
River	6
Roofdier	6
S
Sachsen	3
Samadikun	4	ex-US Claud Jones-class destroyer escort
Santa María	6	Spanish subclass of US Oliver Hazard Perry class
SF3000	(2)	two planned
Shivalik	3	built by MDL; Indian Navy: 2010–present
Soho	1
Suffren	2
Sultan Moulay Ismail	2	Sigma-class design
T
Talwar	6	Indian Navy: 2003–present
Tarik Ben Ziyad	1	Sigma-class design
Tariq	1	ex-British sloop Whimbrel
Tariq	6	ex-UK Amazon class
Thaon di Revel	7+(2)
Thetis	4
Tourville	3
Tromp	2	1975–1976
Tughril	2
Type 053H (Jianghu I)	14
Type 053H1 (Jianghu II)	9
Type 053H2 (Jianghu III)	3
Type 053H1Q (Jianghu IV)	1
Type 053H1G (Jianghu V)	6
Type 053K (Jiangdong)	2
Type 053H2G (Jiangwei I)	4
Type 053H3 (Jiangwei II)	10
Type 054 (Jiangkai I)	2
Type 054A (Jiangkai II)	30
Type 12 Whitby	8
Type 12M Rothesay	21
Type 12I Leander	26
Type 12I Canterbury	2	New Zealand variant of Leander class
Type 14 Blackwood	15
Type 15	23	converted War Emergency Programme destroyers
Type 16	10	converted War Emergency Programme destroyers
Type 21 Amazon	8
Type 22 Broadsword (Batch 1)	4
Type 22 Boxer (Batch 2)	6
Type 22 Cornwall (Batch 3)	4
Type 23 Duke	16
Type 41 Leopard	7
Type 61 Salisbury	4
Type 81 Tribal	7
U
Ulsan	9
Uruguay	3	ex-French Commandant Rivière class
V
Valour class	4
Van Amstel	6	ex-US Cannon class
Van Speijk	6	1967–1968 modernised Leander class
Vasco da Gama	3	MEKO 200 design
Visby	4
W
Wakaba	1	modified Tachibana class
Wele Nzas	1
Wielingen	3
Y
Yavuz	4	MEKO 200 design[1]
Yūbari	2
Z
Zagreb	2
Zulfiquar	4