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• sloop — ► NOUN 1) a single masted sailing boat with a mainsail and jib rigged fore and aft. 2) a small anti submarine warship used for convoy escort in the Second World War. ORIGIN Dutch sloep …   English terms dictionary

• Sloop-of-war — USS Constellation , a later United States Navy sloop of war named after the original frigate.In the 18th and the earlier part of the 19th centuries, a sloop of war was a small sailing warship (also known as one of the escort types) with a single… …   Wikipedia

• Sloop — For the military definition of sloop see: Sloop of war. : For the open learning project see: SLOOP Project. A sloop (from Dutch sloep ) is a sailboat with a fore and aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter. A sloop s… …   Wikipedia

• sloop — noun 1》 a one masted sailing boat with a mainsail and jib rigged fore and aft. 2》 (also sloop of war) historical a small square rigged sailing warship with two or three masts. 3》 a small anti submarine warship used for convoy escort in the Second …   English new terms dictionary

• Black Swan class sloop — HMS Black Swan Class overview Name: Black Swan class Operators: Royal Navy Royal Indian Navy …   Wikipedia

• List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy — This is a list of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy. The term corvette was not introduced into the Royal Navy until the 1830s, and at that time its use replaced both the larger sloops and also what had previously been categorised… …   Wikipedia

• Destroyer escort — A destroyer escort (DE) is the classification for a smaller, lightly armed warship designed to be used to escort convoys of merchant marine ships, primarily of the United States Merchant Marine in World War II. It is employed primarily for anti… …   Wikipedia

• Bittern class sloop — The Bittern class sloop was a three ship class of long range escort vessels used in the Second World War by the Royal Navy. DesignThey were built as light, long range escort ships with little anti air capability. Three were built: HMS Enchantress …   Wikipedia

• Texan sloop-of-war Austin — The Texan sloop of war Austin was the flagship of the Second Texas Navy from 1840 1846. Commanded by Commodore Edwin Ward Moore, she led a flotilla in the capture of Villahermosa in 1840. After a period of inaction in port, Austin participated in …   Wikipedia

• Shoreham class sloop — The Shoreham class sloops were a class of eight small British warships built in the early 1930s.Developed from the Bridgewater class sloops, with a longer hull, the Shoreham class sloops were laid down between 1929 and 1931 at Chatham and… …   Wikipedia

• Kingfisher class sloop — The Kingfisher class was a class of patrol sloop of the British Royal Navy built during the 1930s that saw service during World War II. Design The Kingfisher class was an attempt to build a small patrol vessel under 600 tons, such vessels being… …   Wikipedia