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.

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	4	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	3
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
Yūbari	2
Z
Zagreb	2
Zulfiquar	4

Bibliography

• Saunders, Stephen, ed. (2004). Jane's Fighting Ships 2004–2005. Coulsdon, UK: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0-7106-2623-1.