It hosts one of the largest populations of frigate birds.

The great poet Emily Dickinson once said, There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.

Come 2013, ten attack helicopters, two naval helicopters, two light aircraft, one frigate, and air force protection equipment will also be arriving.

Following the war the Navy regularly deployed a frigate to the Persian Gulf or Red Sea to enforce the trade sanctions imposed on Iraq.

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