The Sloop Period Faroese: Slupptíðin is a period in Faroese history, where the Faroese society transformed from a feudal society to a semi-industrial society...

During the 18th and 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship of the British Royal Navy with a single gun deck that carried up to 18 guns. The rating...

built by Columbia River Shipbuilding Westward Ho TN 54, a smack from the Sloop period, Faroe Islands Operation 'Westward Ho', a UK government scheme to resettle...

corvettes, sloops of that period were specialised convoy-defence vessels. Corvettes were based on a mercantile design with triple expansion engines, sloops were...

came from Sørvág. His name was Gamli Dávur. During the Sloop period ,Sørvágur had many sloops. The church in Sørvágur is from 1886. The first fish factory...

This is a list of Sixth-rate, corvette, and sloop classes of the Royal Navy. During the Age of Sail, warships were divided into ranks or classes. The...

The capture of the sloop Ranger was a naval battle which occurred on June 10, 1723 near Block Island in the Atlantic Ocean. Two pirate ships under the...

Folkestone class, was a class of sloop which were built for the Royal Navy and the Royal Indian Navy in the interwar period. In total five ships were built...

whose crew Teach joined around 1716. Hornigold placed him in command of a sloop that he had captured, and the two engaged in numerous acts of piracy. Their...

The first Vandalia was an 18-gun sloop-of-war in the United States Navy during the Second Seminole War and the American Civil War. She was named for the...

Hope is an oyster sloop that was completed in 1948. It is believed to be the last sail-powered oystering vessel built on the Long Island Sound. Hope is...

main mast is usually stepped further forward than the position found on a sloop. The sail plan of a ketch is similar to that of a yawl, on which the mizzen...

iron-ribbed, wooden-hulled three-masted screw sloop with a coal-fired steam engine of the early Meiji period, serving with the fledgling Imperial Japanese...

that period, sail plans might start from smallest to largest boat or ship in a hierarchy of sailing rigs: Yachts Catboat with a single sail Sloop with...

USS Kearsarge, a Mohican-class sloop-of-war, is best known for her defeat of the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France during...

supporters were left with a captured sloop.[citation needed] By 1717, Hornigold had at his command a thirty-gun sloop he named the Ranger, which was probably...

He next had United States Coast Survey duty, then was an officer of the sloop of war St. Mary's during the Mexican War, when he also served in the Naval...

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...

The Bougainville class was a group of colonial avisos, or sloops, built for the French Navy during the 1930s. They were designed to operate in the remote...

Theater, 1980. In 1966, Seeger and his wife Toshi founded the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, a nonprofit organization based in Beacon, New York, that sought...

composite wood-and-steel. In common with other designs of Royal Navy sloop of the period, the Beagle class were not intended or designed to fight a modern...

The Alert class was a two-ship class of 6-gun screw steel sloops built for the Royal Navy in 1894. Alert and Torch were constructed of steel to a design...

visiting Canton and Danang, Roberts arrived in Bangkok in 1833 on the US Sloop-of-war Peacock. Roberts met and negotiated with Chao Phraya Phrakhlang....

and naturalist whom Aubrey appoints as his naval surgeon. They sail in HM sloop-of-war Sophie with first lieutenant James Dillon, a wealthy and aristocratic...

Meanwhile, a riot broke out in Boston in June 1768 over the seizure of the sloop Liberty, owned by John Hancock, for alleged smuggling. Customs officials...

crew, alongside another female pirate, Mary Read, and helped steal the sloop William in August 1720. Rackham and his crew would carry out a number of...

steel sloops built at Sheerness Dockyard for the Royal Navy between 1900 and 1903. This was the last class of the Victorian Navy's multitude of sloops, gunvessels...

brigantine from Boston and a Barbadian sloop. He stripped the brigantine, but brought the cargo-filled Barbadian sloop to an inlet off North Carolina to use...

English quarryman's dialect pronunciation of the word "layers"; secondly, sloops from north Cornish ports such as Bude would sail across the Bristol Channel...

a cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1771 HMS Endeavour (1763 sloop), a 14-gun sloop, purchased in 1763 and foundered in 1780 in a hurricane off Jamaica...