Goodrich. It was fall 1892, and the Constellation was on its final transatlantic voyage. The sloop of war -- the last all-sail warship built for the U.S. Navy -- was almost 40 years old and not in ...

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 ...

The United States sloop-of-war Saratoga, Acting Lieut. GEO. E. WELCH commanding, Port Royal, S.C., six days, arrived at this port yesterday. The Saratoga mounts 22 guns, and has a crew of 210 men.

On the night of February 17, 1864, US Navy sailors aboard the sloop-of-war USS Housatonic were watching ... but as the object came closer, its size and metal body made clear that it was a man ...

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 ...