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USS Growler (1812 sloop) USS Hamilton (1812), foundered 8 August 1813, 42 killed; USS Hornet (1775), captured 27 April 1777; USS Hornet (1805 sloop) USS Hornet (1805 brig), foundered with the loss of all hands 10 September 1829; USS Independence (1776 sloop), wrecked 24 April 1778; USS Jamestown (1844) USS Julia (1863)
A sloop-of-war was quite different from a civilian or mercantile sloop, which was a general term for a single-masted vessel rigged in a way that would today be called a gaff cutter (but usually without the square topsails then carried by cutter-rigged vessels), though some sloops of that type did serve in the 18th century British Royal Navy, particularly on the Great Lakes of North America.
HMS Swallow was a 10-gun Merlin-class sloop of the Royal Navy that prior to her commissioning was briefly known as HMS Galgo. Launched in 1744, the ship sailed to North America in June, bringing news of the start of King George's War and capturing two merchant vessels.
HMS Ceres : The 18-gun sloop was captured in April by the French Navy's Iphigénie. HMS Hinchinbrooke : The 12-gun sloop was captured by the United States Navy. Raleigh ( United States Navy): The 32-gun frigate ran aground at Matinicus Isle, Maine and was abandoned. She was captured by the Royal Navy three days later and refloated.
USS Providence was a sloop-of-war in the Continental Navy, originally chartered by the Rhode Island General Assembly as Katy.The ship took part in a number of campaigns during the first half of the American Revolutionary War before being destroyed by her own crew in 1779 to prevent her falling into the hands of the British after the failed Penobscot Expedition.
USS Growler (1812 sloop) USS Growler (1812 schooner) USS Guerriere (1865) H. USS Hartford (1858) USS Hornet (1805 sloop) USS Housatonic (1861) I. USS Idaho (1864)
Sold to Peru after the French government stopped its sale to the Confederacy. Taken into service as BAP Unión 1864. Scuttled January 1881 to avoid capture. [38] [39] CSS Texas, screw corvette and sister ship of BAP Union. Sold to Peru after the French government stopped its sale to the Confederacy. Taken into service as BAP America.
USS Constellation is a sloop-of-war, the last sail-only warship designed and built by the United States Navy.She was built at the Gosport Shipyard between 1853 and 1855. She was named for the earlier frigate of the same name that had been broken up in 1853.