Six FrigatesSix Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy is a book by Ian W. Toll, which was published by Norton in 2006. The book is a history of the original six frigates of the U.S. Navy.AwardsIn 2007, Six Frigates won the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature and the William E. Colby Military Writers' Award.