The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word FRIGATE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result FRIGATE
- Naval vessel, scandal of the day?
- Ship: arrangement of sails etc crushed by one's sinking?
- Gear aboard large eastern vessel
- Lot controlling sails etc for ship
- One liked no end to take passage in ship
- Ship’s destiny, to carry arrangement of sails
- Warship's undoing, going round oil installation
- Vessel that opens late in the week?
- Ship’s scandalous day?
- Ship having its mast and sails overwhelmed by destiny
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What does FRIGATE mean?
FRIGATE noun- An obsolete type of sailing warship with a single continuous gun deck, typically used for patrolling, blockading, etc, but not in line of battle.
- A 19th-century warship combining sail and steam propulsion, typically of ironclad timber construction, supplementing and superseding sailing ships of the battle line until made obsolete by the development of the solely steam-propelled iron battleship.
- A modern type of warship, smaller than a destroyer, originally (WWII) introduced as an anti-submarine vessel but now general purpose.
- A frigatebird.