From the Liverpool Post, July 1. Capt. S.B. LUCK, of the United States instruction sloop-of-war Macedonian, 14, now in Plymouth Sound, accompanied by Le Duc DE PONTHIEVRE and his governor ...

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 ...

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The 145-year-old sloop of war — a veteran of the Civil War and anti-slavery patrols off West Africa — has just completed a 30-month restoration that cost $7.3 million. It has survived rot ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...