A comment about 8,000-ton frigates is answered with the Type 26 family. In this 2021 comparison, the British, Canadian, and Australian versions are described as approaching that scale when fully loaded. Their designs have differences, so the figure is an approximate comparison. The example explains why a familiar classification need not imply the displacement of earlier frigates.
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Type 26 and the growth of frigates
The Type 26 variants illustrate why the frigate label can accompany a much larger modern ship.