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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)
Albany was one of a group of eight full-rigged, three-masted wooden sloops built in the early 1840s that were the last American sailing sloops to be commissioned. [2] The ship measured 147 feet 11 inches (45.1 m) long between perpendiculars and she had a beam of 38 feet 6 inches (11.7 m).
It has a fractional sloop masthead sloop rig, a transom-hung rudder and a fixed stub keel with a centerboard. It displaces 2,100 lb (953 kg) and carries 625 lb (283 kg) of ballast. [1] Starting in 1980, a number of boats were built with a masthead sloop rig and known as the MacGregor 25 MH. [1]
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USS Wasp of the United States Navy was a sailing sloop-of-war captured by the British in the early months of the War of 1812.She was constructed in 1806 at the Washington Navy Yard, was commissioned sometime in 1807, Master Commandant John Smith in command.
The Bermuda sloop became the predominant type of sailing vessel both in the Bermudian colony and among sloop rigs worldwide as Bermudian traders visited foreign nations. . Soon, shipbuilding became one of the primary trades on the island and ships were exported throughout the English colonies on the American seaboard, in the West Indies, and eventually to Eur