The ship Nightingale, J.J. GUTHRIE ... by the United States sloop-of-war Saratoga, having on board 950 negroes. She was taken into Monrovia, where the cargo was put on shore, and 272 men, 97 ...

The USS Constellation was about 800 miles off the U.S. coast and bound for Europe when a ferocious Atlantic gale bore down, churning the sea until it was "boiling at the bows and breaking into ...

To the Editor of the New-York Times: In a recent letter to the press, I notice that Mr. DICKERSON, in speaking of the speed of the new sloops-of-war ... Engineer of that ship, I cannot let ...

sailing vessel, common in the last half of the 18th century) commissioned to intercept and defend against British aggression at sea as a sloop-of-war. Brigs were sloops and primarily smaller ...

The ship’s high-speed auxiliary pumps were never ... “I’m going to miss this every morning.” Built in 1854, the sloop of war fought the slave trade off West Africa in the 1850s.