Sloop-of-war
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During the 18th and 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship of the Royal Navy with a single gun deck that carried up to 18 guns. The rating system of the Royal Navy covered all vessels with 20 or
c. 1752 model of a 12-gun Royal Navy sloop
1831 painting of a Royal Navy Bermuda sloop entering a port in the West Indies by John Lynn
USS Portsmouth in 1896.
The Grimsby-class HMS Wellington. Launched in 1934, the vessel is now berthed on the Thames
Sloop
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In modern usage, a sloop is a sailboat with a single mast generally having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail abaft the mast. It is a type of fore-and-aft rig. The mainsail may be
Sloop-of-war
…Navy, and also performed similar duties to the smaller corvettes of the Royal Navy. 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…
A Bermuda sloop, the most common version of the sloop in modern sailing vessels
19th century Bermudian sloops racing