At the War College before it was moved, the weight of the anchor from the USS Constellation, a sloop-of-war built in 1855, was estimated at 6,000 pounds. But the crane weighed it at 10,000 pounds ...

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.

He then looked through nearly 50 years of notary records to discover that a sloop called Defiance had ... “They took anchor, but in heavy seas the crew was forced to cut the anchor cables ...

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Capt. Johnston Blakely, the namesake of the borough, first commanded the sloop Wasp through a string of victories against the British in the War of 1812. Naturally, this 17-ton anchor did not ...

Argentina's Defense Ministry Wednesday announced it was pulling the the decommisioned sloop ARA Alférez Sobral from a list of old units to be auctioned for scraps, given the vessel's historic ...

Jim “Swannie” Watkins had started building a significant replica of the War of 1812 sloop USS Trippe. For years the unfinished boat sat down at at Silo City, waiting for the perfect storm to ...