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This is a list of sloops of war of the United States Navy. Sailing sloops of war. USS ...
A sloop-of-war was quite different from a civilian or mercantile sloop, which was a general term for a single-masted vessel rigged in a way that 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.
Note that early sloops were single-masted, including (initially) the Swift, Jamaica, and Hazard groups listed below for 1700–1711; however, all surviving sloops by 1716 had been re-rigged as two-masted, and all new sloops continued to be two-masted until the 1750s, when three-masted – ship-rigged – sloops were introduced.
List of sloops of war of the United States Navy; A. USS Adirondack (1862) USS Alaska (1868) USS Albany (1846) HMS Alert (1804) USS Alligator (1813) USS Antietam (1869)
This is the category of sloops-of-war of the Royal Navy. See list of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy for the full list. Subcategories ...
The Cherokee class was a class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy, mounting ten guns. Brig-sloops were sloops-of-war with two masts (a fore mast and a taller main mast) rather than the three masts of ship sloops. Orders for 115 vessels were placed, including five which were cancelled and six for which the orders were replaced by ones for ...
USS Constellation is a sloop-of-war, the last sail-only warship designed and built by the United States Navy.She was built at the Gosport Shipyard between 1853 and 1855. She was named for the earlier frigate of the same name that had been broken up in 1853.
The sloops were initially part of Western Approaches command used to escort convoys such as SL convoys from Sierra Leone to Liverpool, and one, HMS Culver, was sunk by a German submarine in the Atlantic while so employed January 1942. In 1943, the nine surviving sloops were assigned to Operation Torch—the Allied invasion of French North Africa.