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 ...

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.

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Dispute between a naval lieutenant and a future Revolutionary War hero may have sparked the historic burning of a British warship in Warwick in 1772.

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 ...