How many masts does a 'Sloop' have?
"The Sloop Inn The Sloop Inn is an inn in St Ives, Cornwall, England, located on the wharf. It is one of the oldest inns in Cornwall, the public house is dated to ""circa 1312"" although the present building was built in the 17th or 18th century. Made of granite rubble, with a slate roof, the Sloop Inn was the favourite haunt of Victorian artists including Louis Grier and many of his paintings hung there in earlier years. Today the public house is a traditional bar, with low ceilings but with an outside decking area. It also includes accommodation for"
"18th century, most naval sloops were two-masted vessels, usually carrying a ketch or a snow rig. A ketch had main and mizzen masts but no foremast, while a snow had a foremast, a main mast and a mizzen immediately abaft the lower main mast. The first three-masted (i.e. ""ship rigged"") sloops appeared during the 1740s, and from the mid-1750s most new sloops were built with a three-masted (ship) rig. The third sail afforded the sloop greater mobility and the ability to back sail. In the 1770s, the two-masted sloop re-appeared in a new guise as the ""brig sloop"", the successor"
"two sails, the individual sails of a sloop are larger than those of an equivalent cutter, yawl or ketch. Until the advent of lightweight sailcloth and modern sail-handling systems, the larger sails of a sloop could be a handful. So, until the 1950s, sailboats over 10 metres length overall would typically use a cutter rig or a two-mast rig. After the advent of modern winches and light sailcloth, the sloop became the dominant sailing rig type for all but the largest sailboats. No rig type is perfect for all conditions. Sloops, with their paucity of spars and control lines, tend"
"Snake-class ship-sloop The ""Snake-""class ship-sloops were a class of four Royal Navy sloops-of-war built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Though ships of the class were designed with the hull of a brig, their defining feature of a ship-rig changed their classification to that of a ship-sloop rather than that of a brig-sloop. In December 1796 the Royal navy placed orders for four new sloops. The Navy Board considered two differing schools of design, one led by Sir William Rule and another by Sir John Henslow. To compare the qualities of ship-rigged and brig-rigged vessels, a ship of"
"than two masts, with the foremast always lower than the foremost main. Traditional topsail schooners have topmasts allowing triangular topsails sails to be flown above their gaff sails; many modern schooners are Bermuda rigged. The most common modern sailboat is the sloop, which features one mast and two sails, typically a Bermuda rigged main, and a headsail. This simple configuration is very efficient for sailing into the wind. A fractional rigged sloop has its forestay attached at a point below the top of the mast, allowing the mainsail to be flattened to improve performance by raking the upper part of"
"Cherokee-class brig-sloop The ""Cherokee"" class was a class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy, mounting 10 guns. Brig-sloops are sloops-of-war with two masts (a fore mast and a taller main mast) rather than the three masts of ""ship sloops"". Orders for 115 vessels were placed, including 5 which were cancelled and 6 for which the orders were replaced by ones for equivalent steam-powered paddle vessels. Many of these sailing vessels served as mail packet ships, and more than eight assisted with exploration and surveys. The best known of the class was , then considerably modified for ""Beagle""s second survey voyage"
"the sailplan. In this traditional definition a sloop could have multiple jibs on a fixed bowsprit. Cutters had a rig with a single mast more centrally located, which could vary from 50% to 70% of the length of the sailplan, with multiple headsails and a running bowsprit. A mast located aft of 50% would be considered a mast aft rig. Somewhere in the 1950s or 2000s there was a shift in these definitions such that a sloop only flew one headsail and a cutter had multiple headsails and mast position became irrelevant. In this modern idiom, a cutter is a"
"sloop Maria in 1845, 92 feet long and built of staves bound with iron hoops like a barrel. Other hollow masts were made from two tapered timbers hollowed and glued together. Nearly a century later, the simple box form of mast was arrived at. Although sailing ships were superseded by engine-powered ships in the 19th century, recreational sailing ships and yachts continue to be designed and constructed. In the 1930s aluminium masts were introduced on large J-class yachts. An aluminium mast has considerable advantages over a wooden one: it is lighter and slimmer than a wooden one of the same"
"to the former snow sloops. Brig sloops had two masts, while ""ship sloops"" continued to have three (since a brig is a two-masted, square-rigged vessel, and a ship is a square-rigger with three or more masts, though never more than three in that period). In the Napoleonic period, Britain built huge numbers of brig sloops of the (18 guns) and the (10 guns). The brig rig was economical of manpower (important given Britain's chronic shortfall in trained seamen relative to the demands of the wartime fleet) and, when armed with carronades (32-pounders in the ""Cruizer""s, 18-pounders in the ""Cherokee""s), they"
"Fish class sloop is a gaff-rig, fixed-keel, hard chine, v-hull sloop, originally made of wood, which can carry a crew of from two to five (usually three) depending on the wind. Its specifications are length 20' 6"", waterline 16', beam 6', draft 3', weight , ballast , sail area , mainsail area , jibsail area . In early years a club foot jib was used and in later a genoa jib was used. Rules have been modified to allow aluminum spars and hulls made partially or totally of fiberglass composite. When the Fish is raced in a cruising class event"
"Swallow-class sloop The ""Swallow""-class sloop was a 9-gun wooden screw sloop class of four ships built for the Royal Navy between 1854 and 1857. Built of a traditional wooden construction, the ""Swallow"" class were intended as ""type of screw vessel below the ""Cruizer"""". The class were armed with a single 32-pounder gun (58cwt) gun on a pivot mount and eight 32-pounder (25cwt) carronades on the broadside. These guns were all smoothbore muzzle-loading, and were little changed from the standard guns of Nelson's era. Propulsion was provided by a two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine developing 60 nominal horsepower and an indicated"
"sloop ""Rebecca"" and the watering brig ""Hatter"", were private vessels under contract to the Royal Navy; the other two, the frigate and sloop , were Royal Navy ships. For defense, Elbert had the galleys of the Georgia State Navy; four of these, ""Washington"", ""Lee"", ""Congress"", and ""Bulloch"", had been underwritten by the Continental Congress and constructed in Savannah between 1776 and 1777. All four were under the command of Commodore Oliver Bowen. On April 15 Elbert received word that the Royal Navy had been spotted off the coast, and detailed around 360 men of the Georgia Continental battalions of Fort"
"Eclipse-class sloop The ""Eclipse"" class was a class of seven 6-gun wooden screw sloops built for the Royal Navy between 1867 and 1870. They were re-armed and re-classified as 12-gun corvettes in 1876. Two further vessels were proposed but never ordered. A development of the ""Amazon"" class, they were designed by Edward Reed, the Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction. The hull was of wooden construction, but with iron cross-beams, and a ram bow was fitted. Propulsion was provided by a two-cylinder horizontal steam engine driving a single screw. ""Spartan"", ""Sirius"" and ""Tenedos"" had compound steam engines, and the remainder"
"two heavy guns, usually 24-pounders. In 1790, the fleet consisted of 285 armed vessels. These were crewed by 320 officers, 675 NCOs, and about 6,000 sailors. Additionally, the vessels carried 593 army officers who commanded about 17,000 NCOs and soldiers. A gun sloop (""kanonslup"") had two collapsible masts and carried chase guns in both bow and stern. They were 15 to 19 meters in length and 3.5 – 4 meters in width while having draft of slightly less than one meter. The sloops had 10 to 12 oar pairs with two men on each oar and two collapsible sloop-rigged masts."
"swiftly re-ordered as paddle steamers in May 1824 – ""Alban"" and ""Carron"" (both at Deptford), ""Columbia"", ""Confiance"", ""Dee"" and ""Echo"" (all four at Woolwich). Cherokee-class brig-sloop The ""Cherokee"" class was a class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy, mounting 10 guns. Brig-sloops are sloops-of-war with two masts (a fore mast and a taller main mast) rather than the three masts of ""ship sloops"". Orders for 115 vessels were placed, including 5 which were cancelled and 6 for which the orders were replaced by ones for equivalent steam-powered paddle vessels. Many of these sailing vessels served as mail packet ships, and"
"sloop ""Ann of Caledonia"", (formerly the ""Anne""), picking up another fully supplied vessel (the ""Society"") on the way. They arrived in Darien to find the burnt timbers of the ""Olive Branch"" rotting on the shore. Word of the first expedition did not reach Scotland in time to prevent a second voyage of more than 1000 people. A new company flagship, ""The Rising Sun"", boasting 38 cannon, led the way, supported by ""The Duke of Hamilton"", the ""Hope of Bo'ness"", and a smaller vessel, the ""Hope"". They sailed from the Clyde, on the west of Scotland, cutting out the perilous round-Scotland"
"(generally a jib) in addition to the mainsail (Bermuda rig but c.f. Friendship sloop). A cutter (boat) also has a single mast, set further aft than a sloop and more than one headsail. Additionally, Bermuda sloops only have a single sail behind the mast. Other types of sloops are gaff-rigged sloops and lateen sloops. Gaff-rigged sloops have quadrilateral mainsails with a gaff (a small boom) at their upper edge (the ""head"" of the sail). Gaff-rigged vessels may also have another sail, called a topsail, above the gaff. Lateen sloops have triangular sails with the upper edge attached to a gaff,"
"horsepower of between and . Propulsion was applied through a single screw and at maximum power under steam, top speed was about . A barque rig of sails was carried, which meant the ships of the class had three masts with a square rig on the fore and main masts. The first two ships were ordered on 5 July 1852, ""Ariel"" on 2 April 1853 and ""Lyra"" on 3 April 1854. Swallow-class sloop The ""Swallow""-class sloop was a 9-gun wooden screw sloop class of four ships built for the Royal Navy between 1854 and 1857. Built of a traditional wooden"
"example. Despite being fought gallantly, ""Avon"" was crippled by loss of a gaff. She then lost her main mast, which loss rendered her immobile. The vessels, built in 1813–1814, were intended as an answer to the American ship-rigged sloops. The following table lists the ""Cruizer""-class brig-sloops (and the two ""Snake""-class ship-sloops, which were identical apart from carrying a three-masted ship rig) according to the date on which the Admiralty ordered them. All subsequent vessels were brig-rigged. The Board ordered 19 in 1802 and 1803. The Board ordered six vessels to this design during May 1804, all of fir. Building of"
"Bermuda sloop The Bermuda sloop is a type of fore-and-aft rigged single-masted sailing vessel developed on the islands of Bermuda in the 17th century. Such vessels originally had gaff rigs with quadrilateral sails, but evolved to use the Bermuda rig with triangular sails. Although the Bermuda sloop is often described as a development of the narrower-beamed Jamaica sloop, which dates from the 1670s, the high, raked masts and triangular sails of the Bermuda rig are rooted in a tradition of Bermudian boat design dating from the earliest decades of the 17th century. It is distinguished from other vessels with the"
"sloop-of-war, , which was trialled from 1843-45 against HMS ""Alecto"", a sister ship fitted with paddle propulsion. As a result of these trials, the Navy adopted the screw propeller as its preferred propulsion method. By 1855, 174 ships of the Royal Navy had been fitted with screw propulsion, including 52 ships-of-the-line, 23 frigates, 17 corvettes, 55 sloops, and various other vessels. Some merchants were also quick to adopt screw propulsion. In 1840, Wimshurst built a second propeller-driven vessel, the 300-ton ""Novelty"", the first screw-propelled cargo ship and the first to make a commercial voyage. In 1841, a small passenger steamer"
"brig-sloop , chased a ""trabaccoló"" under the protection of the tower of San Cataldo, on the coast between Brindisi and Otranto. The boats of the two vessels captured the tower and blew it up. The ""trabaccoló"" had three guns and three swivel guns, but no cargo, and the men from the boats blew it up too. On 2 February 1813, after a two-hour chase, the boats of the 18-gun sloop captured one ""trabaccoló"" and ran nine ashore at St. Catherine's, Corfu. Musket fire from the heights and cannon fire from a battery killed two British sailors and severely wounded seven."
"the number of staysails, with a sloop having one and a cutter more than one, or by the position of the mast, with a cutter's mast being located between 50% and 70% of the way from the aft to the front of the sailplan, and a sloop's mast being located forward of the 70% mark. A mast aft rig could, based on headsail count, be considered a variation of the sloop or cutter, or, based on mast position, a unique rig. In the typical Bermuda rig, the sails located in front of the mast generally deliver a higher percentage of"
"Merlin-class sloop The ""Merlin"" class was a class of twenty-one sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1743 and 1746. They were all built by contract with commercial builders to a common design prepared by Jacob Acworth, the Surveyor of the Navy; however, there was a difference, with a platform deck being constructed in the hold in ""Swallow"" (i), ""Merlin"", ""Raven"" and ""Swallow"" (ii), whereas the other seventeen had no platform and thus their depth in hold was nearly twice as much. Although initially armed with ten 6-pounder guns, this class was built with seven pairs of"
"period, the term ""ship"" referred to a vessel that carried square sails on three masts. Sailing vessels with only two masts or a single mast were technically not ""ships"", and were not described as such at the time. Vessels with fewer than three masts were unrated sloops, generally two-masted vessels rigged as snows or ketches (in the first half of the 18th century), or brigs in succeeding eras. However some sloops were three-masted or ""ship-rigged"", and these were known as ""ship sloops"". Vessels were sometimes classified according to the substantive rank of her commanding officer. For instance, when the commanding"
"laid in early 1756 and work commenced on the hull. Bately's initial design was for a two-masted snow-rigged sloop, but this was modified in mid-1756 into a traditional three-masted ship rig to increase speed at the expense of manoeuvrability. When completed, the vessel was long with a keel, a beam of and a deep hold. Fitted out for Royal Navy service she was lightly armed with 10 four-pounder cannons ranged along her upper deck, accompanied by 12 -pounder swivel guns for anti-personnel use. The half-built sloop was formally christened ""Stork"" on 25 May 1756. However Stow and Bartlett ultimately failed"
"one, which will be less permanent in terms of keeping the mast up, may be called the stays'l stay. A sloop carries only one head sail, called either the foresail or jib.. The cutter rig, especially a gaff rig version where the sails aft the mast were divided between a mainsail below the gaff and a topsail above, was useful for sailing with small crews as the total sail area was divided into smaller individual sails. These could be managed without the need for large crews, winches, or complex tackles, making the cutter especially suitable for pilot, customs and coast"
"to impart less aerodynamic drag. Compared to other rigs, sloops tend to perform very well when sailing close hauled to windward and generally offer a sound overall compromise of abilities on all points of sail. Cutters, ketches and yawls are often preferred to sloops when venturing far offshore, because it is easier to reef small sails as the wind increases, while still keeping the boat balanced. To maximize the amount of sail carried, the classic sloop may use a bowsprit, a spar that projects forward from the bow. The foresail may be a jib, which does not overlap the mast"
"Bermuda, today, to describe any single masted, Bermuda rigged boat, also known as ""Marconi sloops"", although most are far less extreme in their design than was once the norm in Bermuda, with bowsprits omitted, masts vertical and shortened, and booms similarly shortened. Spinnaker booms and multiple jibs are rarely seen. The reduced sail area makes modern boats much more manageable, especially for small or inexperienced crews. Bermuda sloop The Bermuda sloop is a type of fore-and-aft rigged single-masted sailing vessel developed on the islands of Bermuda in the 17th century. Such vessels originally had gaff rigs with quadrilateral sails, but"
"Camelion-class sloop The ""Camelion"" class was a class of screw-driven sloops of wood construction, designed by Isaac Watts and operated by the Royal Navy. Eight ships of the class were built from 1858 to 1866 with another eight cancelled. They were initially rated as second-class sloops, but were later reclassified as corvettes. The class was designed by Issac Watts as second-class sloops of 17 guns, and were a lengthened version of the ""Cruizer""-class sloop. Built of a traditional wood structure, they were long at the gundeck, in beam and displaced 1,365 tons. A barque rig was fitted to allow easy"
"Hope (sloop) Hope is an oyster sloop that was completed in 1948. It is believed to be the last sail-powered oystering vessel built on the Long Island Sound. Hope is long, including the bowsprit, and at the waterline. Its beam is , and it draws with the centerboard up. Hope is gaff rigged, 'V'-bottomed and has an centerboard. Hope's shallow draft facilitated shoal water work. The keel of Hope was hewn from a giant white oak felled in a hurricane on Brush Island in Indian Harbor, Greenwich, Connecticut. The frame and planking are of white oak trees cut on the"
"Racer-class sloop The ""Racer""-class sloop was an 11-gun wooden screw sloop class of five ships built for the Royal Navy between 1855 and 1860. Built of a traditional wooden construction, the ""Racer"" class were a lengthened version of the , which in turn had been intended as ""type of screw vessel below the ""Cruizer"""". The extra length gave greater speed, and combined with a considerable increase in power, this gave a speed of about , rather more than the of the previous class. The class were armed with a single 32-pounder gun (58 cwt) gun on a pivot mount and"
"Cruizer-class brig-sloop The ""Cruizer"" class was an 18-gun class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. Brig-sloops were the same as ship-sloops except for their rigging. A ship-sloop was rigged with three masts whereas a brig-sloop was rigged as a brig with only a fore mast and a main mast. The ""Cruizer"" class was the most numerous class of warships built by the British during the Napoleonic wars, with 110 vessels built to this design, and the second most numerous class of sailing warship built to a single design for any navy at any time, after the smaller 10-gun s. Of"