The corvette is a proud type of ship that is used extensively in naval forces around the world, so why doesn't the U.S. Navy ...

The splendid sloop-of-war Pensacola, now lying off Alexandria, made another trial of her engines today, preparatory to a trial trip down the river, that will come off in a few days, ...

The Speed of the Sloop-of-War Iroquois. Share full article. Feb. 14, 1864. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from February 14, 1864, Page 5 Buy Reprints.

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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 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 ...

On September 10, 1779, the Continental Navy’s schooner USS Morris took on the British Sloop of War, HMS West Florida. After a fierce battle, the West Florida was captured.

The first USS Antietam was a screw sloop of war and construction began in 1864 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Due to the end of the Civil War, the ship was not completed as initially planned.

On Feb. 17 of that year, he led a nighttime attack ramming a powder explosive into the steam-powered sloop-of-war about four miles from shore. The Housatonic sank to the bottom quickly.

The first USS Antietam was a screw sloop of war, and construction began in 1864 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The second was an Essex-class aircraft carrier launched Aug. 20, ...

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. USS Enterprise (CV ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) — Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro has announced the names of three future Virginia-class submarines, honoring the city of Norfolk, a major Virginia river and the New ...