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The Canadian Halifax-class frigate HMCS Regina, 2008.

The U.S.S. Constitution, an 18th-century wooden frigate with tall masts and rigging, docked at a pier in Boston Harbor with brick buildings in the background.

The French frigate La Fayette.

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