Enterprise was a Continental Navy sloop-of-war that served in Lake Champlain during the American Revolutionary War. She is the first of a long and prestigious line of United…
USS ”Fly was an eight-gun sloop of war built into the Continental Navy. She was part of a squadron that raided the port of Nassau and engaged the…
The first USS ”Hornet” was a merchant sloop chartered from Captain William Stone in December 1775 to serve under Stone as a unit of Esek Hopkins’ Fleet.Hornet fitted…
USS ”Independence” (1776 sloop) was a sloop in the Continental Navy. Acting as a dispatch boat, she was sent to France on a diplomatic mission – carrying important…
Originally chartered by the Rhode Island General Assembly as Katy, USS ”Providence” was a sloop in the Continental Navy. The ship took part in a number of campaigns…
The first USS ”Ranger was a sloop-of-war in the Continental Navy in active service in 1777-1780; she received the second salute to an American fighting vessel by a…
The first USS ”Revenge was a sloop-of-war in the Continental Navy. Revenge” was built in the summer of 1776 by Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin at Fort Ticonderoga, New York.The…
The first Sachem was a sloop of war in the United States Navy during the American Revolutionary War.The Continental brigantine {USS|Lexington|1776|2}, commanded by Captain John Barry, captured the…
USS ”Saratoga” was a sloop in the Continental Navy. She was the first ship to honor the historic Battle of Saratoga. She disappeared in 1781. Her fate remains…