- 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...
- 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...
- A ****
sloop is a propeller-driven
sloop-
of-
war. They were po****rized 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...
-
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...