On Oct. 4, 1855, a U.S. Navy sloop of war, the Decatur, sailed into Elliott Bay to defend Washington Territory against attacks by “Northern Indians.” By late January, a conflict, dubbed “The ...

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WASHINGTON, Friday, July 22. The Navy Department has received information of the capture, off Mosquito Inlet, Fla., of the sloop Sarah Mary of Nassau, N.P., June 26, with nine bales of cotton.

Few people know that an important naval battle of the American Revolution took place just offshore from present day ...

Argentina's Defense Ministry Wednesday announced it was pulling the the decommisioned sloop ARA Alférez Sobral ... 13 at the Mar del Plata Naval Base, according to the Official Gazette.

Each war introduced new naval technology, new tactics ... and transformed from a sloop to a sloop-of-war. The ship that would go on to become the U.S.S. Providence was charged with the modest ...

John Barry, "the father of the U.S. Navy," soundly defeated a British frigate ... The agenda includes a "first volley" fired by a sloop on nearby Sykes Creek, dedication of a marker donated ...

The first USS Antietam was a screw sloop of war, and construction began in 1864 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The second was an Essex-class aircraft carrier launched Aug. 20, 1944, and ...

BALTIMORE (WHTM) — Since 1955 the sailing warship U.S.S. Constellation has been a fixture of the Baltimore waterfront. Since 1968 she’s been the centerpiece of the Inner Harbor, seen by ...