Sloop
Parent Type: Sailing Warships
Quick Facts
- Era
- 18th–20th Century
- Role
- Small warship and escort
- Notable For
- Versatile light naval duties
Sloops served the Royal Navy in a wide range of roles
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Ships in this Type Tree
Decommissioned (9)
- HMS Adventure (1771) – Ship-rigged sloop
- HMS Resolution (1771) – Ship-rigged sloop
- HMS Childers (1778) – Brig-sloop
- HMS Providence (1791) – Ship-rigged sloop
- HMS Investigator (1801) – Ship-rigged sloop
- HMS Cherokee (1808) – Cherokee-class brig-sloop
- HMS Fly (1813) – Cherokee-class brig-sloop
- HMS Beagle (1820) – Ship-rigged sloop
- HMS Daring (1874) – Fantome-class sloop
Lost (2)
- HMS Endeavour (1764) – Ship-rigged sloop
- HMS Speedy (1782) – Brig-sloop
Related Types
- Armoured Frigate
- Bomb Ketch
- Bomb Vessel
- Brig
- Brig-sloop
- Central Battery Ironclad
- Composite Sloop
- Dispatch Vessel
- Fifth-rate Frigate
- Fireship
- First-rate Ship of the Line
- Fourth-rate Ship of the Line
- Gun-brig
- Ironclad
- Packet Frigate
- Packet Ship
- Paddle Steamer Warship
- Post Ship
- Screw Corvette
- Screw Frigate
- Second-rate Ship of the Line
- Ship of the Line
- Ship-rigged Sloop
- Sixth-rate Frigate
- Third-rate Ship of the Line
- Turret Ship
- Wooden Steam Frigate