This list of frigate classes includes all post–World War II frigate classes listed alphabetically. See also List of frigate classes by country .
Frigate class Number
Notes
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
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
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'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
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
Fatahillah 3
Floréal 6
Formidable 6
FREMM 4
twenty-seven planned
Fridtjof Nansen 5
derivative of Álvaro de Bazán class
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
Halifax 12
Hamilton 12
Hang Tuah 1
Horizon 4
Hydra 4
MEKO 200 design
Ikazuchi 2
Incheon 6
Inhauma 4
Ipiros 1
ex-US Knox class
Ishikari 1
Isuzu 4
Iver Huitfeldt 3
Jacob van Heemskerck 2
1986
João Belo 3
João Coutinho 6
Jose Rizal 2
Jupiter 2
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
La Fayette 5
Le Corse 4
Le Normand 14
Leander 44
Legend 9
Legkiy 2
Lekiu 2
Loch 32
Lupo 4
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ulsan 9
Uruguay 3
ex-French Commandant Rivière class
Valour class4
Van Amstel 6
ex-US Cannon class
Van Speijk 6
1967–1968 modernised Leander class
Vasco da Gama 3
MEKO 200 design
Visby 4
Wakaba 1
modified Tachibana class
Wele Nzas 1
Wielingen 3
Yavuz 4
MEKO 200 design[1]
Yūbari 2
Zagreb 2
Zulfiquar 4
Citations [ edit ] Bibliography [ edit ] Saunders, Stephen, ed. (2004). Jane's Fighting Ships 2004–2005 . Coulsdon, UK: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0-7106-2623-1 .