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USS Ganges (1794) USS Germantown (1846), scuttled 20 April 1861. USS Granite (1862) 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.
Sloop-of-war. During the 18th and 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship of the British Royal Navy with a single gun deck that carried up to 18 guns. The rating system of the Royal Navy covered all vessels with 20 or more guns; thus, the term encompassed all unrated warships, including gun-brigs and cutters.
USS. Constellation. (1854) 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.
USS Vincennes was a 703-ton Boston-class sloop of war in the United States Navy from 1826 to 1865. During her service, Vincennes patrolled the Pacific, explored the Antarctic, and blockaded the Confederate Gulf coast in the Civil War. Named for the Revolutionary War Battle of Vincennes, she was the first U.S. warship to circumnavigate the globe.
Fanfan (1666), built as a yacht – made into a harbour craft 1692. Roebuck (1666), 16 guns – sold 1683. Francis (1666), 16 guns – wrecked 1684. Truelove (1647) (rebuilt as a fireship in 1668), 12 guns – expended in 1672. Saudadoes (1669), 16 guns as rebuilt 1673, captured and burnt by the French 1696.
USS Hartford at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California. USS Hartford, a sloop-of-war steamer, was the first ship of the United States Navy named for Hartford, the capital of Connecticut. Hartford served in several prominent campaigns in the American Civil War as the flagship of David G. Farragut, most notably the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864.
USS. Portsmouth. (1843) The second USS Portsmouth was a wooden sloop-of-war in the United States Navy in service during the mid-to-late 19th century. She was designed by Josiah Barker on the lines of a French-built privateer, and built at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, directly across the Piscataqua River from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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.