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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…

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…

Surprise, the first American naval ship of the name, was a sloop purchased by the Continental Navy in 1777 and commanded by Captain Benjamin Dunn.Surprise was ordered in…