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	Sloop-of-war -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In the (additional info and facts about 18th) 18th and (additional info and facts about 19th) 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a small sailing (A government ship that is available for waging war) warship with a single gun deck which carried between ten and eighteen (A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels) cannons.
		A brig sloop had two (A vertical spar for supporting sails) masts and a ship sloop had three, because a (A penal institution (especially on board a ship)) brig in those days was a one or two masted vessel – to be a ship it had to have three or more masts.
		A ship sloop was generally an equivalent of a (A highly maneuverable escort warship; smaller than a destroyer) corvette.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sl/sloop-of-war.htm (396 words)

	Sloops of the Hudson River, Part I, The Packets
		The sloop differs from the cutter, and other one-masted “fore-and-aft” vessels in having her bowsprit fixed, while with the cutter it can be drawn in or “housed.” The cutter is narrow, deep, and sharp and has a keel.
		The rig, however, soon commended itself, for the sloop with her long boom, tall mast, and heavy mainsail was difficult to handle at all times and especially in a blow and required a crew of six men to the schooner’s four.
		The old sloops were formerly furnished with long oars known as “sweeps” which were used, particularly in the Highlands, during calms to prevent the vessels being run ashore by the tide, for the currents there are swift and at certain places would throw a sloop on the rocks were she not kept off.
	www.ulster.net /~hrmm/diglib/verplanck/part1.html (11143 words)

	WaterTribe Everglades Challenge in the Rob Royoid Canoe by Matt Layden
		Canoes that became known as 'Rob Roy' type: stable, seaworthy, comfortable small paddling boats that could sail passably, were gradually outnumbered and replaced by their offspring, which tended to be longer, wider and heavier, driven by desire to sail more and paddle less.
		The rudder lets me use a single blade paddle efficiently as advocated by the late Verlen Kruger and his disciples, to cut wind drag and body stress from the heavier double blade (which is demoted to a spare to be used in extreme conditions when it might be necessary to brace on either side quickly).
		I had to head up into the wind and paddle a switch stroke, four or five short hard jabs on one side until she fell off the wind, switch, and as many jabs as needed on the other side to bring the bow back up to the wind, switch...
	www.watertribe.com /Magazine/Y2005/M05/MattLaydenRobRoyoidCanoe.aspx (5816 words)

	HMS Hermes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Hermes was originally the Dutch sloop Mercurius, captured in 1796 by HMS Sylph.
		The fourth Hermes was a 20-gun sixth-rate launched in 1811, and burned in 1814 during the War of 1812.
		The fifth Hermes was a wooden paddle packet, originally George IV, purchased in 1830, renamed Hermes in 1832, renamd Charger in 1835, and broken up in 1854.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Hermes (349 words)

	HMS Phoenix -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The eleventh Phoenix was a wooden paddle sloop launched in 1832, converted to screw propulsion in 1845, and sold 1864.
		The twelfth Phoenix was a composite (additional info and facts about screw sloop) screw sloop launched in 1879 and wrecked 1882.
		The fourteenth Phoenix was a (A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to) destroyer launched in 1911 and sunk 1918 by an Austrian (A submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes) submarine.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/HM/HMS_Phoenix2.htm (383 words)

	Proafile \| Rig Options - Sloop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The sloop is really no slower to shunt than a traditional Oceanic sprit (Crab Claw), however if compared to other modern rigs that have been optimized for shunting, such as the balestron, Gibbons, or schooner, it is much slower -- especially single-handed.
		Sailboat designers know that tall sloops are more efficient than shorter sloops of the same area, due to the reduction in induced drag that high aspect-ratio brings.
		Modern sloop rigged yachts have hulls that are properly reinforced for the kinds of strains that are applied by the rig.
	www.proafile.com /article.php?id=36_0_1_0_C (1368 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot - Colonial Navies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Steam was asserting itself as a motive power at sea and the paddle warships Acheron and Torch augmented the sailing vessels based on Port Jackson, which included Calliope and the sloops Electra and Falcon.
		Loring’s flagship Iris was a sailing frigate, the other vessels under his command being the screw corvettes Pelorus and Niger, and the screw sloop Cordelia — a rather ill-matched collection of vessels and hardly to be rated as a powerful naval force.
		An interesting vessel on the station in 1859-60 was the screw sloop Niger which, in 1849, had been pitted against the paddle sloop Basilisk during tests in the English Channel to determine the efficiency of the screw propeller as compared with the paddle.
	www.gunplot.net /colonialnavy/colonialnavy1.html (3385 words)

	9/12/93 Marina del Ray, CA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		On Sunday morning, September 12, 1993 the L-36 sloop Eventide, single-handed by Bob Griffiths, was en-route to Santa Cruz Island from Marina Del Rey, California.
		The kayaks soon appeared to be the underside of the hulls of a capsized Hobie Cat, with two waterlogged sailors, standing on the netting between the hulls.
		They were clinging to the underside, dressed only in wet shorts and life jackets, one waving a paddle with an orange colored tee shirt covering the blade.
	www.ussailing.org /safety/rescues/9_12_93_del_ray_ca.htm (1118 words)

	HMS Phoenix
		The twelfth Phoenix was a composite screw sloop launched in 1879 and wrecked 1882.
		The thirteenth Phoenix was a sloop launched in 1895 and capsized 1906 in a typhoon at Hong Kong.
		The fourteenth Phoenix was a destroyer launched in 1911 and sunk 1918 by an Austrian submarine.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/hms_phoenix (355 words)

	Royal Navy: History
		She was employed as a despatch vessel and tender, and was sold in 1748 at Minorca.
		The ‘new’ ship was the former HMS Norwich, a Fourth Rate 50-gun ship built at Chatham in 1718, but rebuilt and reduced in guns and Rating to be a Fifth Rate 44-gun ship in 1744, when she was renamed.
		Originally laid down as a wooden screw sloop, she was redesigned and completed as an ironclad, making her one of the first vessels of composite construction.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /static/pages/3501.html (1587 words)

	Crossing the River Humber by Ferry
		A paddle sloop used from 1814 between Hull and Gainsborough.
		A paddle steamer used from 1831 between Barton and Hull.
		Used from 1860 between Gainsborough and Hull by the Gainsborough Steam Packet Co. It was sold in 1912 to the Goole Steam Packet Co and used between Goole and Hull.
	www.geocities.com /dazxtm/humberferry.htm (1842 words)

	Articles - Ship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Notable developments included the condenser, which reduced the requirement for fresh water, and the multiple expansion engine, which improved efficiency.
		As the means of transmitting the engine's power, the paddle wheel gave way to the more efficient screw propeller.
		Paddle steamer A steam-propelled, paddle-driven vessel, a name commonly applied to nineteenth century excursion steamers.
	www.seekj.com /articles/Ship (2283 words)

	Chesapeake Bay Foundation - Save the Bay: The Choptank to Poplar Island
		Only the Rebecca Ruark, the 1887 sloop, kept alive by Captain Wadie Murphy’s charter business, and the Kathyrn, owned by seafood dealer and Captain Russell Dize were floating.
		The working skipjacks are now just relics, as the recently allowed power dredging for oysters eliminated their competitive advantage as being the only Maryland boats allowed to use the efficient dredges.
		We paddled from the Narrows to Poplar Island, and summer again was hanging on with a vengeance.
	www.cbf.org /site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=12632 (392 words)

	HMS Triton
		Tryton was a sloop in commission in 1741.
		Triton, launched in 1846, was an iron paddle sloop sold in 1872.
		Triton, launched in 1882, was a paddle survey vessel, from 1919 a school ship at Gravesend, and broken up in 1961.
	www.keywordmage.net /hm/hms-triton.html (254 words)

	HMS Oberon -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The first Oberon was a 16-gun (additional info and facts about brig-sloop) brig-sloop launched in 1805 and broken up 1816.
		The second Oberon was an iron paddle sloop launched in 1847, used as a gunnery target after 1870, sunk in 1874 during experiments with (Excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted) mines, raised 1875 and sold 1880.
		The third Oberon was an (additional info and facts about M-class) M-class (A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to) destroyer launched in 1916 and sold in 1921.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/HM/HMS_Oberon2.htm (215 words)

	THE ROYAL NAVY IN AUSTRALIA
		The screw sloop Harrier lying in the harbour was alerted and set out to render assistance, but she herself ran aground and did not reach the disaster scene.
		An internal 4-inch horizontal protective deck extended over her whole length, but the vast, unprotected sides were extremely vulnerable, and much of the 6-inch armament, carried in the side casemates, proved unworkable in moderately heavy seas.
		One vessel of the new Australian fleet was HMAS Encounter, which had served as a unit of the RN on the Australia Station from 1906 to 1912 when she was presented to the Royal Australian Navy.
	freepages.history.rootsweb.com /~ausnavy/RN_In_Oz.htm (3415 words)

	Encyclopedia: HMS Medea
		The third Medea was to have been a 32-gun fifth-rate of 658 tons; ordered from Woolwich Dockyard in 1800, later cancelled.
		The fourth Medea was a paddle sloop launched in 1833 and sold 1867.
		The fifth Medea was a 2nd class cruiser launched in 1888 and sold 1914.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/HMS-Medea (237 words)

	Tales of the Klondyke, by Jack London; Siwash Page 4
		Sling a paddle with the next and starve as contentedly as Job.
		Go for'ard when the sloop's nose was more often under than not, and take in sail like a man. Went prospecting once, up Teslin way, past Surprise Lake and the Little Yellow-Head.
		He was a husky beggar and would have used the paddle too.
	pagebypagebooks.com /Jack_London/Tales_of_the_Klondyke/Siwash_p4.html (572 words)

	HMS Victoria - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Victoria, was a wooden paddle sloop launched in India in 1839 and sold in about 1864.
		Victoria, launched 1855, was an Australian wooden screw sloop later used as a survey ship.
		Victoria, launched 1859 was a first rate screw ship broken up in 1893.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/HMS_Victoria (208 words)

	History of the unarmoured woorden screw warship HMS Phoenix
		Commander Inglefield paid a visit to Chatham Dockyard last week to inspect the Lady Franklin sailing vessel, it being in contemplation that she should accompany his expedition, as a storeship.
		The vessel was taken out of dock yesterday, and will be taken into the basin this afternoon to have her boilers put on board, and the will be out of the hands of the factory engineers on the 16th of April.
		The Breadalbane will join the other vessels of the squadron at the Nore, and she will be towed by the Barracouta steam sloop to Stromness.
	www.pdavis.nl /ShowShip.php?id=200 (3099 words)

	Frigate Unicorn Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		Since it has come to light that the Unicorn has always been as she is today (give or take the odd temporary signal mast) the Society now intends to keep her as she is, sheltering under the weatherproof roof that has preserved her so well.
		The Unicorn came to Dundee under tow behind the HM Paddle Sloop Salamander in November 1873.
		She has since been moored in the city, serving the local naval units in a range of roles from floating drill hall to the headquarters for the area.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /dundee/frigateunicorn/index.html (1205 words)

	A Great Day Out - Historic Dockyard, Chatham > Home > MUSEUM/HERITAGE > History of the Dockyard > The Steam Navy > ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		From 1832 the Navy entered into a period of great technological change with the introduction of both steam and iron to shipbuilding.
		The first steam vessel built at Chatham was the paddle sloop Phoenix, launched in September 1832.
		From 1840 numerous trials were carried out with screw propellers, including the construction at Chatham in 1842 of the Bee, a curious small craft built with both paddle wheels and screw propeller.
	www.chdt.org.uk /NetsiteCMS.php?pageid=158 (205 words)

	World War 1 and 2 - HMS Bulldog
		The first Bulldog was a small 4-gun vessel bought in March 1794 and sold later in the same year.
		The second Bulldog was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1782 but converted to a Royal Navy bomb vessel in 1798.
		The third Bulldog was a wooden steam powered paddle sloop launched in 1845 but ran aground in 1865 whilst attacking Haiti as part of a punitive raid against revolutionaries who had seized the British consulate.
	www.worldwardiary.com /history/HMS_Bulldog (197 words)

	Satsuma and Choshu
		The American Civil War was raging at its height at this point and the United States Navy was concentrated in home waters.
		The sloop rounded the rocky promontory on the southern shoreline that had screened its approach and steamed at full speed directly toward Shimonoseki and the three Choshu vessels moored in shallow water.
		The squadron consisted of Kuper's flagship, the 2,371 ton 35-gun frigate H.M.S. Euryalus, the corvette Pearl, the sloop Perseus, the paddle-sloop Argus, and the gunboats Racehorse, Coquette and Havoc.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C20/E2005.htm (4616 words)

	The WoodenBoat School - Brooklin, Maine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In 1985 he joined the crew at Sun Yacht Charters based in nearby Camden as operations manager and was responsible for a fleet of yachts chartered along the Maine coast.
		He skippered and managed the Friendship sloop SURPRISE out of Tenants Harbor from 1987 to 2001, meanwhile performing services as a yacht delivery captain and as a yacht manager for private owners.
		She currently teaches at Southern Maine Community College; works on outreach for the organization Mainely Women in Science; and is the vice-president of Portland Trails, an urban land trust in Portland, Maine.
	www.thewoodenboatschool.com /facultystaff.html (11794 words)

	Water Sports - sacbee.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Several area dive shops have access to heated indoor pools for getting the confined-water requirements out of the way even though the weather is cooling, and this is the best time of year to be doing open-water dives off the coast.
		In the fourth book of his series exploring the high country lakes of California, William Van der Ven again offers details of paddling the lakes and reservoirs off Highways 88 and 4, to the southeast and east of Sacramento.
		Lapping water and dipping paddles may be the only sounds kayakers hear if they take a full-moon tour this weekend on a lake or along the coast.
	www.sacbee.com /content/travel/outdoors/watersports (1719 words)

	1870
		HMS Basilisk, paddlewheel sloop, Capt John Moresby, RN, rescued eight survivors of the brig Maria from Bramble Reef, Qld.
		HMS Penguin, composite screw sloop, was commissioned at Glasgow, Scotland.
		The sloop spent most of her service life in Australian waters.
	freepages.history.rootsweb.com /~ausnavy/1870.htm (1300 words)

	The Times, 11 April 1856 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Geyser, 6, paddle sloop, Commander Tower, returned to Spithead yesterday afternoon.
		The Vesuvius, 6, paddle sloop, Commander Hore, left Portsmouth yesterday for the eastward, with supernumeraries.
		The Driver, 6, paddle sloop, Commander Gardner, left on Wednesday evening for the eastward, to bring back gunboats to Portsmouth.
	www.pdavis.nl /Times_110456.htm (170 words)

	Cape Horn -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		It was the world's largest ship at the time of its launching (1843) and was 322 feet (98 m) long with a tonnage of 3,270.
		Designed by the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel originally as a paddle steamer and built at Bristol, it was equipped with screw machinery that was supplemented by...
		The sloop Alert was the first of many British vessels to be taken by Americans during the War of 1812.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9041068 (805 words)

	Jackie Fisher Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		A few months later the ship returned to the UK where he was assigned to HMS Agamemnon, which arrived at Constantinople (now Istanbul) just as the war ended.
		Promoted to midshipman, he served on a corvette, HMS Highflyer, then the steam frigate HMS Chesapeake and finally the paddle sloop HMS Furious in the China Wars of 1859-1860.
		He studied at HMS Excellent, the naval gunnery school, for 14 months before being transferred as gunnery officer to HMS Warrior, the first all-iron sea-going armoured battleship.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Fisher_Jackie.html (1012 words)

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