In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. The...

"sloop-of-war" refers to the purpose of the craft, rather than to the specific size or sail-plan, and thus a sloop should not be confused with a sloop-of-war...

Vostok was a 28-gun sloop-of-war of the Imperial Russian Navy, the lead ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1819–1821, during which Fabian...

In Royal Navy jargon, a man-of-war (also man-o'-war, or simply man) was a powerful warship or frigate of the 16th to the 19th century, that was frequently...

that of the frigate, while the class below was historically that of the sloop-of-war. The modern roles that a corvette fulfills include coastal patrol...

Army sloop-of-war that served in Lake Champlain during the American Revolutionary War. She was the first of a long and prestigious line of ships of the...

A screw sloop is a propeller-driven sloop-of-war. They were popularized in the mid-19th century, during the introduction of the steam engine and the transition...

of Bermuda is a modern-built Bermuda sloop. She is a replica of a Royal Navy sloop-of-war, depicted in a well-known 1831 painting. The Bermuda sloop was...

to bear in a line of battle. The man-of-war now evolved into the ship of the line. In the 18th century, the frigate and sloop-of-war – too small to stand...

Ми́рный, literally "Peaceful") was a 20-gun sloop-of-war of the Imperial Russian Navy, the second ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1819–1821...

expense of a lower top speed, while remaining capable of outrunning surfaced Type VII and Type IX U-boats. In World War II, Black Swan-class sloops sank...

Revolutionary War. USS Hornet (1805 sloop), also a 10-gun sloop, took part in the First Barbary War. USS Hornet (1805 brig), a brig-rigged sloop-of-war, was launched...

The Bermuda sloop is a historical type of fore-and-aft rigged single-masted sailing vessel developed on the islands of Bermuda in the 17th century. Such...

This is a list of sloops of war of the United States Navy. USS Adams (1799), scuttled 3 September 1814 to prevent capture USS Albany (1846), lost after...

The Texan sloop-of-war Austin was the flagship of the Second Texas Navy from 1840 to 1846. Commanded by Commodore Edwin Ward Moore, she led a flotilla...

sloop-of-war launched in 1780; lost at sea the following year USS Saratoga (1814), a 26-gun corvette built on Lake Champlain for service in the War of...

HMS Newcastle) and others. To counter the American sloops of war, the British constructed the Cyrus-class ship-sloop of 22 guns. The British Admiralty also instituted...

Concord - (24-gun sloop-of-war) 1839 — Preble - (20-gun sloop-of-war) 1841 — Congress - (50-gun frigate) 1842 — Saratoga - (24-gun sloop-of-war) 1843 — Portsmouth...

HMS Swift (1704) was a sloop-of-war of the Swift group, built in 1704 and sold in 1719. See List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy for this...

1947 – 28 November 1949) was a ship's cat who served on the Royal Navy sloop-of-war HMS Amethyst. In 1949, during the Yangtze Incident, he received the PDSA's...

on the night of 16 May 1811. It involved the United States frigate USS President and the British sixth-rate HMS Little Belt, a sloop-of-war, which had originally...

Hulk Junk Liburnian Longship Man-of-war Quadrireme Quinquereme Rocket vessel Schooner Ship of the line Sloop-of-war Trireme Xebec Aircraft carrier Anti-submarine...

with the finer points of "ship-sloop", "brig-sloop", "sloop-of-war" (which really just meant the same in naval parlance as "sloop") or even "corvette"...

on a sloop. The sail plan of a ketch is similar to that of a yawl, on which the mizzen mast is smaller and set further back. There are versions of the...

naturalist whom Aubrey appoints as his naval surgeon. They sail in HM sloop-of-war Sophie with first lieutenant James Dillon, a wealthy and aristocratic...

squadron of vessels from the Second Republic of Yucatán and the Republic of Texas. The latter force consisted of the Texas Navy flagship sloop-of-war Austin...

USS Plymouth (1844), a sloop-of-war, was part of Commodore Matthew Perry's Black Fleet USS Plymouth (1867), a wooden-hulled, screw sloop-of-war, was commissioned...

purpose, number and configuration of masts, and sail plan. Popular monohull designs include: The cutter is similar to a sloop with a single mast and mainsail...

is the case on two of the three masts of the newly built Spirit of Bermuda, a replica of an 1830s British Royal Navy sloop-of-war. Additional sails were...

USS Wasp was a sloop-of-war that served in the United States Navy in 1814 during the War of 1812. She was the fifth United States Navy ship to carry that...