Also, in 2006 the Bermuda Sloop Foundation launched a replica of the Royal Naval sloop-of-war, shown in the 1831 painting at the top of this page, which was constructed by a US contractor from modern materials.

*, was a 22-gun sloop-of-war, launched in 1837 and decommissioned in 1871

In June 1861, Semmes, in Sumter, outran the Union sloop-of-war Brooklyn, breached the Union blockade at New Orleans, and then launched a brilliant career as one of the greatest commerce raider captains in naval history.

Adams and his son, Henry Adams, who acted as his private secretary, also were kept busy monitoring Confederate diplomatic intrigues and the construction of rebel commerce raiders by British shipyards ( like the hull N ° 290, launched as " Enrica " by John Laird & Sons, and which was soon transformed near the Azores Islands into sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ).

*, was a sloop-of-war, launched in 1839 and transferred to the Maryland Naval Militia in 1895

* was an 18-gun sloop-of-war launched in 1805 and wrecked 1808.

*, a sloop-of-war launched in 1827.

*, a sloop-of-war, launched in 1813 and served until 1850

* USS Falmouth ( 1827 ), a United States navy sloop-of-war in commission from 1828 to 1859

*, a sloop-of-war commissioned in 1828. decommissioned in 1865, and stricken in 1907

* was a ship-rigged sloop-of-war constructed in 1813 and lost in a storm at sea in 1814.

* The, was a 22-gun sloop-of-war commissioned in 1846 and lost at sea in 1854.

* Vostok ( sloop-of-war ), a ship of Faddey Bellingshausen during the First Russian Antarctic Expedition, when Antarctica was discovered

He was a lieutenant aboard the sloop-of-war when on 22 September 1809, while under the temporary command of Lt. Henry George Moysey, she ran aground and was wrecked on the coast of Guadaloupe.

After taking a prize three days later, the sloop-of-war became separated from her later that day when a strong gale swept through the area, the high winds nearly swamping the prize commanded by Midshipman Penfield.

On November 8, he commanded Oneida when the 19-gun warship and four of the newly acquired schooners encountered HMS Royal George — a large, 24-gun, ship-rigged sloop-of-war off Kingston and chased her into that port.

The larger of the unrated vessels were generally all called sloops, but that nomenclature is quite confusing for unrated vessels, especially when dealing 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 " ( the last a French term that the British Navy did not use until the 1840s ).

* Mirny ( sloop-of-war ), a ship of Mikhail Lazarev during the First Russian Antarctic Expedition led by Faddey Bellingshausen, when Antarctica was discovered

One of the few successes of this second invasion attempt came when Colonel Elbert put 300 of his troops aboard three galleys and caused the surrender of three British warships, his Majesty ’ s schooner Hinchinbrook, the recently repaired sloop-of-war Rebecca, and a third vessel referred to as a prize brig, all anchored along Frederica.

Alabama finally sailed back to the Atlantic and made port in Cherbourg, France for a much-needed overhaul ; she was soon blockaded by the pursuing Union steam sloop-of-war, USS Kearsarge.

He served on the sloop-of-war until she was wrecked off the coast of India in June 1867.

Lisianski was the commanding officer of the sloop-of-war Neva, an exploratory ship which ran aground on the island in 1805.

Read joined the wardroom of the sloop-of-war in the fall of 1854, departed Norfolk, Virginia, in her on 16 December 1854, and cruised through the West Indies unsuccessfully seeking information concerning.

That sloop-of-war had departed Aspinwall, Colombia, ( now Colón, Panama ), on 29 September 1854 and had not been heard from since sailing.

The Hunley sank for unknown reasons a short while after her successful attack on the sloop-of-war USS Housatonic.

A sloop-of-war was quite different from a civilian or mercantile sloop, which was a general term for a single masted vessel rigged like what would today be called a gaff cutter ( but usually without the square topsails then carried by cutter-rigged vessels ), though some sloops of that type did serve in the 18th century British Royal Navy, particularly on the Great Lakes of North America.

By about 1825 the United States Navy used " sloop-of-war " to designate a flush-deck ship-rigged warship with all armament on the gundeck ; these could be rated as high as 26 guns and thus overlapped " third-class frigates ," the equivalent of British post-ships.

André went up the Hudson River on the British sloop-of-war Vulture on Wednesday, 20 September 1780, to visit Arnold.

The preparation work on the two ships, the 985-ton sloop-of-war Vostok (" East ") and the 530-ton support vessel Mirny (" Peaceful ") was carried out by Mikhail Lazarev, who had captained his own circumnavigation of the globe before.

He served his first three years in the sloop-of-war Erie on the Brazil Station.

Woolsey commanded the sloop-of-war Pawnee on the South Atlantic Station in 1867 and 1868.

In 1830, Moore was stationed at the Norfolk Navy Yard and five years later was commissioned a lieutenant and assigned to the sloop-of-war the Boston on July 1, 1836.

Reporting for duty with his class in September 1863, Gridley joined the sloop-of-war Oneida with the West Gulf Blockading Squadron and distinguished himself with David Farragut at the Battle of Mobile Bay on 5 August 1864.

His sloop-of-war stood out of New York with Hornet and Tom Bowline on 23 January 1815, sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, and entered the Indian Ocean.

During the Civil War he served on the sloop-of-war at the passage of Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip in April 1862, and at the capture of New Orleans, and took part in engagements with the batteries at Vicksburg and Grand Gulf.

The ship features in the second book in the series, Post Captain, and is a very unconventional sloop-of-war with sharp ends at both bow and stern, no tumblehome ( inward curvature at the top of the hull ), drop keels ( similar to daggerboards on some modern sail boats ), and the remnants of the launching system for an unsuccessful secret weapon ( a giant rocket ).

*, was the former sloop-of-war St. Louis renamed Keystone State on 30 November 1904

Captain James Glynn's sloop-of-war USS Preble ( 1839 ) | USS Preble, on which MacDonald returned from Japan.

After his home was attacked by Whigs on 24 April 1775, he sent his family to Elizabeth's in New York and took refuge on board the sloop-of-war Cruiser, transferring his headquarters to Fort Johnston on the Cape Fear River.

He later commanded the 10-gun Continental sloop-of-war Sachem, fitted out by the Marine Committee shortly after Admiral Hopkins ' Fleet sailed for New Providence in 1776, and captured a six-gun British letter of marque off the Virginia Capes.

The sloop-of-war returned to Norfolk on 11 January 1855 before conducting a spring cruise off the east coast as a Naval Academy school ship.