List of frigate classes

This list of frigate classes includes all post–World War II frigate classes listed alphabetically. See also List of frigate classes by country.

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Frigate class	Number of ships	Notes
Abu Bakr	2	ex-British Leopard class
Adelaide	6	derivative of Oliver Hazard Perry class
Ahmad Yani	6	ex-Dutch Van Speijk class
Al Madinah	4
Allende	3	ex-US Knox class
Almirante Brown	4	built in Germany
Almirante Padilla	4	built in Germany
Alpino	2
Alvand	3	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 (2 RNZN)	built by Tenix in Williamstown, Vic, Australia
Al Riyadh	4	three under construction
Artigliere	4
Atrevida	6
Aung Zeya class	1	built in Myanmar
Baleares	5	modified Knox class
Bangabandhu	1
Baptista de Andrade	4
Barbaros	4
Barroso	1
Bay	21
Bditel'nyy	19	see Burevestnik class
Beograd	2
Bergamini	4
Bessmennyy	10
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
Burevestnik	40
Canterbury (Leander)	2
Captain	78	US built destroyer escorts
Cassard	2
Centauro	4
Chao Phraya	4	Chinese Jianghu III class
Cheng Kung	8
Chi Yang	8	ex-US Knox class
Chien Yang	12
Commandant Rivière	9	French built, decommissioned 3 ships sold to Uruguay
Condell	3	fourth decommissioned, British built Leander class
Contre-Amiral Eustatiu Sebastian	2
Datu Kalantiaw	3	ex-US Cannon class, 2 decommissioned, 1 remain
Damyat	2
De Zeven Provinciën	4	2001–2005
El Fateh	1	ex-British destroyer Zenith
Elli	10	ex-Dutch Kortenaer class
Eloy Alfaro	2	ex-British Leander class
Eolo	2
Espora	6
F125		five planned
Fatahillah	3
Floréal	6
Formidable	6
FREMM	4	twenty-seven planned
Fridtjof Nansen	5	derivative of Álvaro de Bazán class
Garcia		10 FF and 1 AGFF ship, 1964–1968
Gabya	8	ex-US Oliver Hazard Perry class
General K. Pulaski	2	ex-US Oliver Hazard Perry class
Georges Leygues	7
Godavari Type 16	3	built by MDL; Indian Navy: 1983–present
Greenhalgh	4	ex-UK Broadsword class (Batch 1)
Gregorio del Pilar	2	ex-US Hamilton class
Hajar Dewantara	1	training ship
Halifax	12
Ilhuicamina	2
Inhauma	4
Ipiros	1	ex-US Knox class; two others decommissioned
Jacob van Heemskerck	2	1986
Jinan	15
Jianghu	31
Jiangwei	14
Joao Belo	3
Joao Coutinho	6
Jupiter	2
Kang Ding	6
Karel Doorman	8	1991–1995
Kasturi	2
Knox		46 FF, 1969–1974
Kola
Köln	6
Koni	14
Kotor	2
Kortenaer	10	1978–1983
Krivak	40	See Burevestnik class.
Kwanggaeto	3
Kyan Sittha	2
La Fayette	5
Leander	44
Legkiy	2
Lekiu	2
Loch	32
Lupo	4
Ma'anshan		2 + 2
Maestrale	8
Marasesti	1
Mariscal Sucre	6
Marte	2
Martha Khristina Tiyahahu		ex-UK Tribal class, all decommissioned
Meliton Carvajal	4	Italian built Lupo class
Mohammed V	2	Floréal class
Moudge	2	Iranian built
Muavenet	6
Mubarak	4	ex-US Oliver Hazard Perry class
Najim al Zafir	2	ex-Chinese Jianghu class
Najin	2
Naresuan	2
Neustrashimyy	2
Nilgiri	6	built by MDL; Indian Navy: 1972-2010
Niteroi	6
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	3
Osman	1	ex-Chinese Jianghu II class
Para	4
Pham Ngu Lao	1	former seaplane tender
Phutthayotfa Chulalok	2	ex-US Knox class
Pizarro	8
Rahmat		one ship, decommissioned 2004 and retired
Regele Ferdinand	2
Sachsen	3
Salisbury	4
Samadikun	4	ex-American Claud Jones-class destroyer escort
Santa Maria	6	Spanish subclass of US Oliver Hazard Perry class
SF3000	(2)	two planned
Shivalik	3	built by MDL; Indian Navy: 2010–present
Sigma	1(2)	built by Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding for Morocco and Indonesia
Smeli	1	ex-Russian Delfin class
Soho	1
Talwar	6	Indian Navy: 2003–present
Tariq	1	ex-British sloop Whimbrel
Tariq	6	ex-UK Amazon class
Te Kaha (Anzac)	2	These are Anzac-class frigate, just built for NZ
Thetis	4
Tromp		two ships, 1975–1976
Type 053H/H1 Xiamen (Jianghu I/II)	21
Type 053H2 Huangshi (Jianghu III)	3
Type 053HT-H Siping (Jianghu IV)	1
Type 053H1G Zigong (Jianghu V)	6
Type 053H2G Anqing (Jiangwei)	4
Type 053H3 Jiaxing (Jiangwei II)	10
Type 054 Ma'anshan	2
Type 054A	26	2 are fitting out and 2 are under construction
Type 12 Whitby (Batch 1)	6
Type 12 Rothesay (Batch 2)	9
Type 14 Blackwood	12
Type 12M Leander (Batch 1)	8
Type 12M Leander (Batch 2)	8
Type 12M Leander (Batch 3)	10
Type 21 Amazon	8
Type 22 Boxer (Batch 2)	6
Type 22 Broadsword (Batch 1)	4
Type 22 Cornwall (Batch 3)	4
Type 23 Duke	16
Type 41 Leopard	5
Type 61 Salisbury	4
Type 81 Tribal	7
Ulsan	9
Uruguay	3	ex-French
Van Amstel	6	former US Bostwick class
Van Speijk	6	1967-1968 modernised Leander class
Vasco da Gama	3
Wielingen	3
Yavuz	4
Ydra	4
Zagreb	2
Zuhai	1
Zulfiquar	4