In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. The... 19 KB (2,630 words) - 06:09, 30 December 2023 |
"sloop-of-war" refers to the purpose of the craft, rather than to the specific size or sail-plan, and thus a sloop should not be confused with a sloop-of-war... 5 KB (553 words) - 21:20, 2 April 2024 |
Vostok was a 28-gun sloop-of-war of the Imperial Russian Navy, the lead ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1819–1821, during which Fabian... 7 KB (559 words) - 18:09, 18 March 2023 |
In Royal Navy jargon, a man-of-war (also man-o'-war, or simply man) was a powerful warship or frigate of the 16th to the 19th century, that was frequently... 4 KB (382 words) - 01:11, 11 March 2024 |
Corvette (redirect from Corvette (war ship)) that of the frigate, while the class below was historically that of the sloop-of-war. The modern roles that a corvette fulfills include coastal patrol... 35 KB (3,913 words) - 18:24, 18 April 2024 |
USS Enterprise (1775) (category Ships of the Continental Navy) Army sloop-of-war that served in Lake Champlain during the American Revolutionary War. She was the first of a long and prestigious line of ships of the... 7 KB (682 words) - 10:46, 8 February 2024 |
of Bermuda is a modern-built Bermuda sloop. She is a replica of a Royal Navy sloop-of-war, depicted in a well-known 1831 painting. The Bermuda sloop was... 9 KB (1,033 words) - 00:09, 30 March 2023 |
Warship (redirect from Vessel of war) to bear in a line of battle. The man-of-war now evolved into the ship of the line. In the 18th century, the frigate and sloop-of-war – too small to stand... 43 KB (5,512 words) - 13:31, 20 April 2024 |