It was the end of January 1847. The USS Lexington, a sloop of war, lay at anchor in Monterey Bay. The small transport had survived a six-month passage around Cape Horn from the East Coast.

The 1854 sloop-of-war returned home on Monday after a two-hour journey from Sparrows Point, where she spent eight weeks in dry dock for repairs at the Tradepoint Atlantic Shipyard. The USS ...

The news is interesting. THE PRIVATEER RETRIBUTION. From the St. Kitts Gazette, 13th. The U.S. sloop-of-war Alabama anchored in our Roadstead on Wednesday morning last, from Guadaloupe.

The 1855 Constellation is a sloop-of-war. (To vastly oversimplify a complicated subject, a sloop-of-war had one gun deck (usually), a frigate had two (usually), and a man-of-war, aka a line-of ...

On June 19, 1864, the Union sloop-of-war USS Kearsarge laid in wait outside the French port of Cherbourg for the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama. The Confederate warship had wreaked havoc ...

As a stopgap measure before they could get the 19th century sloop-of-war into dry dock for repairs, divers began making emergency patches about every six weeks. “Ideally, a wooden ship needs to ...

Dispute between a naval lieutenant and a future Revolutionary War hero may have sparked the historic burning of a British ...

ALL ABOARD! The Tall Ship Providence, a 110-foot, 12-gun sloop of war, is a replica of the first ship authorized to serve in the Continental Navy and John Paul Jones' first American command.

A total of eight U.S. Navy vessels bore the name Enterprise, going back to the very first one in 1775, which was a 70-ton sloop-of-war, though it wasn't built by the Americans. The USS Enterprise ...