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How to use sloop in a sentence

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A small sloop approaches the shore ferrying a group of passengers from Gloucester.
Matt followed Katherine's lead and moved out onto the tiny foredeck of the sloop.
When he stood, he glanced out the window and was able to see just the top of the mast of the anchored sloop.
In July 1798, Stephen Decatur, on the sloop Delaware, captured the French schooner Croyable off New Jersey.
Shots were fired from behind and an all out sea battle began, the sloop versus three heavily armed galleons.
The rig is a simple deck-stepped mast-head sloop with single upper shrouds and spreaders, double lower shrouds and split backstay.
Before the war, the Admiralty had developed a sloop design for convoy escort work.
The yachts shown are two cutters, a schooner, a sloop with Bermuda rig much like our modern Marconi rig, and a lugger.
You don't want to miss stays and be stuck dead in the water as a frigate fires a full broadside at your small sloop.
It depicts a sloop leaving a dock after having discharged a group of passengers.
Humphreys has drawn a fairly high-aspect, cutter-optimized sloop rig for the boat with a lot of emphasis on the versatility of the foretriangle.
An optional gunter sloop rig makes for a very seamanlike rig, and one ideal for young people to learn to sail with.
When a sloop is hove to she is stopped in the water by her foresail being sheeted aback, on the windward side.
The sloop was later trailered to Ossining, N.Y., and berthed immediately south of Sing Sing Prison.
The 31 was offered as a sloop or with a double headsail arrangement commonly called a cutter.
At a young age, Ramona went out on her father's small sloop and learned everything about a ship and sailing.
While these are expensive boats they offer considerably more room than even a modern beamy sloop of this size.
Fortunately, the skipper has both dogs, as well as kids and crew, in life jackets aboard the family sloop Off Call.
During WWII, while in command of the sloop HMAS Yarra, he and his ship's company put up a valiant fight to protect an Allied convoy from Japanese attack in the Java Sea.
Built in plywood clinker, she exists in 2 rig versions: lug rig or sloop, with a boomed lug rig mainsail and a jib on a small bowsprit.
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The BOURBON employees present on la Flâneuse, an old sloop, had the best boxes for the race.
Before being turned into an exploration ship, the Alert was a five-gun war sloop.
The Cape Breton sloop is taken from the Great Seal of Cape Breton and honours this academic institution's location.
Designed by Luc Bouvet, this very light sloop with tight lines will be perfect for all fast cruising enthusiasts.
Coneys chartered the Megan Jaye, a 43-ft sloop based in Newport, Rhode Island, and skippered by Hank Halsted.
Other ships on the high-seas in the late 1700's and up to the end of the 1800's were the sloop, a single masted ship that could carry a mainsail, topsail and foresail.
This cruising sloop features an unstayed gaff rig for simplicity.
From May 1941 to February 1943 Parker was in HMS Fareham, a sloop operating off the coast of Cyraniaca in support of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.
Columbia was named after the Boston, Massachusetts based sloop captained by American Robert Gray.
The brigantine was generally larger than a sloop or schooner but smaller than a brig.
This aluminium 120 feet sloop will only be 123 tons displacement.
Sloop Cove, an 18th and 19th century sloop mooring site, about 3 kilometres upriver from the fort, is notable for the signatures of Hudson Bay Company servants carved in the cove's rock.
I looked at the round bows of the sloop, and then at the old sails and the light-handed crew.
Hornigold placed him in command of a sloop he had captured, and the two engaged in numerous acts of piracy.
In 1716 Hornigold placed Teach in charge of a sloop he had taken as a prize.
In early 1717, Hornigold and Teach, each captaining a sloop, set out for the mainland.
He took Ranger and one of the sloops, leaving Teach with Revenge and the remaining sloop.
Her captain, Henry Bostock, and crew, remained Teach's prisoners for about eight hours, and were forced to watch as their sloop was ransacked.
During July and August he travelled between his base in the town and his sloop off Ocracoke.
His sloop was so badly damaged that it played no further role in the attack.
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Teach's corpse was thrown into the inlet while his head was suspended from the bowsprit of Maynard's sloop so that the reward could be collected.
Improving on the Independence and his previous designs, the new defender Reliance remains the largest race sloop ever built.
The first record of such a government aboard a pirate sloop dates to the 17th century.
Sent as such to New York on the sloop Duxbury, they seized the vessel and sailed it back to Bermuda.
On 14 April 1884 the Commander of the patrol sloop L'Inferent reported on the Egyptian occupation in the Gulf of Tadjoura.
The Commander of the patrol sloop Le Vaudreuil reported that the Egyptians were occupying the interior between Obock and Tadjoura.
In terms of firepower, anything the size of a sloop would not carry more than fourteen guns, with the French sloop's carrying six guns or less.
It was originally the home of Captain Tregarthen who introduced the first sloop in 1849, 'Ariadne', that serviced the Hugh Town from Penzance.
The frigates and sloop carried a hundred officers and men of the Madras European Regiment, while the Mandarin carried supplies.
The stranded crew lived on Garden Key for 56 days, and fought a battle with a Spanish sloop, before sailing to Jamaica in several boats.
Meanwhile, a riot broke out in Boston in June 1768 over the seizure of the sloop Liberty, owned by John Hancock, for alleged smuggling.
The sharpie is a flat-bottomed, shallow-draft vesel of moderate size, comparable to a sloop or schooner.
David Lillies testified that the whalery had ill success because Dubrois took the sloop up the River and the whale was consequently lost.
The Mademoiselles class was fiercely contested by the Dubois 45 metre sloop Lady B who outraced both Ganesha and Royal Huisman's Twizzie.
The Bermuda sloop became highly regarded for its speed and manoeuverability, and was soon adapted for service with the Royal Navy.
Pitcairn Island was sighted on 3 July 1767 by the crew of the British sloop HMS Swallow, commanded by Captain Philip Carteret.
Hunley, a privateer sank the sloop USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
Customs officers found the 36ft UK-registered sloop Poseidon in Barbate harbour and took the boat to Algeciras in the south of Spain.
In March 1718, while taking on water at Turneffe Island east of Belize, both ships spotted the Jamaican logwood cutting sloop Adventure making for the harbour.
Blackbeard fired a broadside of swan shot, nails and old iron at Maynard's sloop when it approached the pirate's ship Adventure, but the naval attack pressed ahead.
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The Portuguese naval forces comprised only three small patrol boats, one each in Goa, Daman and Diu, and the old sloop NRP Afonso de Albuquerque, based in Goa.
There Teach disembarked the crew of the captured Spanish sloop, before proceeding north to the port of Charles Town, South Carolina, attacking three vessels along the way.
On his arrival, Nelson was given command of a small squadron consisting of Agamemnon, three frigates and a sloop, and ordered to blockade the French garrison on Corsica.

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She became interested in a sloop, beating into Wellmouth harbor, and watched that.
The narrator on joining the sloop had found this man on board after some years of separation.
They would at least have a start, the sloop in front of them, and their enemies behind them.
At last a lighter was mustered, and a sloop from Hingham, which had six port holes.
A sloop, which was to land us at Kingscreek, struck an oyster bed, where we had to wait about two hours for the tide.
And, thinking of a free sheet, Bess gave the little sloop a foot or two more of main-sheet.
The whole report was favourable to the keels, and H.M. sloop 'Cynthia' was built.
By the time the sloop was well into Thunder Bay, the wind, as if to speed her on her way, had shifted to southeast.
He therefore judged it necessary to build a brigantine, a radeau, and a sloop of 16 guns.
We make out the frigate to be the Terpsichore, and the sloop, I know by her new royals, is the ringdove.
For an instant all hands beheld a small sloop with a broken mast, kiting before the wind.
Our sloop bore the consolatory name of Haabet, and belonged to the merchant Fromm, in Copenhagen.
It was midnight when the little sloop at last crept into the harbor of tarpon.
He was dragging at the mainsheet as the big boom tilted up into the darkness above his head, while the sloop rolled heavily.
Twelve men from the Greek colonies embarked at Annaba in a sloop belonging to the Numidians.
I will tell Woodson to try you with a sloop when the press of work in the fields is past.
If I could get to the centerboard and drop it, I believed the sloop would ride better and could be steered.
You engage him to discover a likely sloop whose owner is disposed to sell.
About 1660, he removed to Barbadoes in his own sloop, the Hopewell.
Fenders were lowered, and the sloop slid gently to the jetty side.
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O'Sullivan OG pointed to the sloop, pointed to his house, grinned.
In the evening the wind rose, and the sloop moved down the loch.
Recently, I went for a sail aboard a friend's brand-new Hinckley 35-foot sloop.
He equipped a sloop of 140 tons burden, and sailed for Darien.
I worked all day now, salving and boating off a cargo to the sloop.
To these must be added the Druid frigate, the sloop of war, and the Gnat.
The topsail and jib were spread, and the sloop glided out of the estuary.
He slipped down into the sloop and kicked loose the hasp of the hatch.
There is the cutter rig, yawl rig, sloop rig, and the ketch rig.
The White Wings was a sloop yacht with club and jib topsails.
A sloop with a lateen sail lay at anchor in the rude harbor.
This led the traveller to ask if Tom Jones owned a small sloop.
Then he knew that it must be a party who had come off the pirate sloop.
Sheahan, who was 17 at the time, was racing onboard his father's 30-foot sloop, Grimalkin, one of the smaller yachts in the fleet.
This sloop was named Sally Lloyd, in honor of one of the colonel's daughters.
I thought I was again in the barbadian sloop, during the storm.
As they headed in for the sandspit, the submerged salmon boat could be seen, gunwales awash and held up from sinking by ropes fast to the schooner and the sloop.
Far below him the Tappan Zee spread its dusky and indistinct waste of waters, with here and there the tall mast of a sloop, riding quietly at anchor under the land.
She could not muster resolution to raise her eyes towards the sloop, but by a kind of instinctive coquetry dragged her companion to the other side of the boat.

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