*, was an 18-gun sloop-of-war commissioned in 1826 and sold in 1867

There was also HMS St Albans Prize, an 18-gun sixth rate captured from the French in 1691 and sold in 1698.

* was an 18-gun ship sloop built in 1777 and commanded by John Paul Jones.

*, was a 18-gun sloop of war commissioned in 1826 and wrecked in the Bahamas in 1846

* The second Zebra, launched in 1780, was an 18-gun sloop, converted to a bomb vessel, and sold in 1812.

* The third Zebra, launched in 1815, was the last of the 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloops.

* The first Charybdis was an 18-gun brig-sloop in use from 1809 to 1819.

* was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1807 and sold in 1815.

* was an 18-gun Comet-class sloop launched in 1828, renamed Comus in 1832, and broken up 1862.

* was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1777 and captured by the French frigate Iphigénie in December 1778 off Saint Lucia.

* was a rocket vessel launched in 1807, converted to an 18-gun sloop in 1808, to a fire ship in 1809, and to a 24-gun post ship in 1810.

* was an 18-gun sloop, formerly the Spanish Triunfo.

* The second Halcyon was an 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop launched in 1813 and wrecked the following year in Jamaica.

*, launched in 1806, was an 18-gun, broken up in 1820.

* HMS Mohawk was an 18-gun sloop purchased in 1782 and sold in 1783.

* HMS Mohawk was to have been an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop but she was renamed HMS Ontario before being launched in 1813.

* The seventh was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1829, renamed Larne in 1832, and broken up in 1866.

* was an 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop launched in 1806 and captured by the French in 1811.

* HMS Meteor was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1805 as HMS Starr.

* The first Scylla was an 18-gun brig-sloop launched in 1809 and broken up 1846.

* The first Frolic was an 18-gun 384 ton brig-sloop in service from 1806 to 1813.

* The second Challenger was an 18-gun brig-sloop launched in 1813 and later used as a store hulk before being sold in 1824.

* The fourth Challenger was to have been an 18-gun corvette of 810 tons ; the ship was ordered from Chatham Dockyard in 1845, but cancelled in 1848.

He spent three months from July to September 1889 on board Warspite for manoeuvres before joining the sailing corvette Ruby for a year, where in May 1890 he was promoted to Sub-Lieutenant.

In July 2010, after the visit of Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the sale of a Barroso-class corvette to be constructed in Brazil was announced.

Miaoulis was forced to set charges in the flagship Hellas and the corvette Hydra, blowing them up when he and his handful of followers returned to Hydra.

Challenger was named after HMS Challenger, a British corvette that was the command ship for the Challenger Expedition, a pioneering global marine research expedition undertaken from 1872 through 1876.

The classification of sloop was similar to that of a corvette.

He also assisted in the equipping of the Argentinean corvette Uruguay, which was being fitted out for the relief of the stranded Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Nordenskiöld.

With them, to protect their interests, and to act as arbiter in any disputes, was the French corvette Héroine, commanded by captain Jean-Baptiste Cécille, which reached Akaroa in June.

They sailed for Havana in an American corvette, but the ship was stopped in the Gulf of Mexico by a British warship.

After midshipman service in the corvette, and cruiser he was commissioned as ensign in January 1903.

The first to be so named was a corvette built at Kiel's Norddeutsche Schiffbau AG ( later renamed the Krupp-Germaniawerft ) and launched 20 March 1877.

Méryon's mother brought him up, but died when he was still young, and Méryon entered the French navy, and in the corvette " Le Rhin " made the voyage round the world.

* was a Briton-class wooden screw corvette launched in 1871 and sold in 1887.

Nakhodka Bay, around which the city is organized, was discovered in 1859 by the Russian corvette Amerika, which sought shelter in the bay during a storm.

The oceanic whitetip shark was first described by naturalist René-Primevère Lesson in his account of Louis Duperrey's 1822 – 1825 world-circling journey on the corvette Coquille.

A ship sloop was generally the equivalent of the smaller corvette of the French Navy ( although the French term also covered ships up to 24 guns, which were classed as Post ships within the sixth rate of the British Navy ).

The name corvette was subsequently also applied to British vessels, but not until the 1830s.

However, the warship-standards construction and sophisticated armaments of the sloop of that time did not lend themselves to mass production, and the sloop was supplanted by the corvette, and later the frigate, as the primary escort vessel of the Royal Navy.

The genus name honors admiral Auguste Bérard ( 1796-1852 ), who was captain of the French corvette Le Rhin ( 1842-1846 ), which brought back the type specimen to France where Duvernoy analyzed it ; the specific name honors Dr. Maurice Arnoux, the ship's surgeon who found the skull of the type specimen on a beach near Akaroa, New Zealand.

HMS Rushen Castle ( K372 ), a former Castle-class corvette of the Royal Navy, was named after the castle.

* The first Leeds Castle ( K384 ) was a Castle-class corvette ( though later on re-designated a frigate ), built in 1944.

*, a Bathurst class corvette which entered service in 1942 and was sold for scrap in 1958

* The third Charybdis was a screw corvette launched in 1859, loaned to Canada from 1880 to 1882, and sold 1884.

* was an Eclipse-class wooden screw corvette launched in 1867.