ISBN: | 978-5-5120-8719-0 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Elizabeth was a 38-gun fourth rate frigate of the English Royal Navy, built by Peter Pett I at Deptford Dockyard and launched in 1647. The term `frigate` during the period of this ship referred to a method of construction, rather than a role which did not develop until the following century.