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A sloop's headsail may be masthead-rigged or fractional-rigged. On a masthead-rigged sloop, the forestay (on which the headsail is carried) attaches at the top of the mast. On a fractional-rigged sloop, the forestay attaches to the mast at a point below the top. A sloop may use a bowsprit, a spar that projects forward from the bow.
The masthead rig has larger and more headsails, and a smaller mainsail, compared to the fractional rig. The major advantage a masthead sloop has over a fractional one, is that the jib is larger. Since the jib has no mast in front of it to cause turbulent airflow over it, it is considered much more efficient than the main, especially for sailing ...
USS Growler (1812 sloop) USS Hamilton (1812), foundered 8 August 1813, 42 killed; USS Hornet (1775), captured 27 April 1777; USS Hornet (1805 sloop) USS Hornet (1805 brig), foundered with the loss of all hands 10 September 1829; USS Independence (1776 sloop), wrecked 24 April 1778; USS Jamestown (1844) USS Julia (1863)
USS Trumbull, the third United States Navy ship to bear the name, was an 18-gun sloop-of-war that took part of the so-called Quasi-War between the United States and France, between 1800 and 1801. Construction
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The second USS St. Mary's was a sloop-of-war in the United States Navy. St. Mary's was built in 1843–44 at the Washington Navy Yard , Washington, D.C. , was commissioned in the fall of 1844, Commander John L. Saunders in command.
It has a masthead sloop rig, a skeg-mounted rudder and a fixed fin keel. It displaces 7,400 lb (3,357 kg) and carries 3,000 lb (1,361 kg) of ballast. [1] [2] [4] The boat has a draft of 4.25 ft (1.30 m) with the standard keel. [1] [4] The boat has a PHRF racing average handicap of 225 with a high of 222 and low of 231.
The Herreshoff H-26 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with teak wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig with aluminum spars, a spooned plumb stem, a raised transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by either a wheel or a tiller and a fixed long keel.