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Sloop (E. Bordis/Leo de Wys, Inc.)

Sloop, sailing vessel rigged with one mast and a single jib and mainsail. Sloops are usually Marconi-rigged; the vessels have a tall pole mast and a...

Watercraft : types of vessels: sloop – Ship

Watercraft : types of vessels: sloop – Ship (U.S. Navy)

Several types of smaller battleships also commonly operated in naval warfare in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The sloop (or corvette, the...

Corvette, originally, a sailing man-of-war, smaller than a frigate but larger than a sloop of war. It was a flush-decked, ship- or bark-rigged...

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Sloop (E. Bordis/Leo de Wys, Inc.)

Sloop: Boats and Boatbuilding ( Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.)

Sloop: Boats and Boatbuilding

- sailing boat: a single-masted sailing boat, rigged fore-and-aft, with one headsail extending from the foremast to the bowsprit

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