ship-sloop

• “Essex ended most unfortunately at Valparaiso, where the frigate was attacked while in port by the British thirty-six-gun frigate Phoebe and eighteen-gun ship-sloop Cherub.”

  The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country

• “The "Peacock" was a ship-sloop of twenty-two guns, with a crew of one hundred and sixty-six men.”

  The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)

• “O. August 13th a sail was made out to windward, which proved to be the British ship-sloop _Alert_, 16, Captain T.L. O. L.ugharne, carrying 20 eighteen-pound carronades and 100 men.”

  The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans

• “But the little 12-pounder _Alexandria_, and the ship-sloop with her 18-pound carronades, would not have stood the ghost of a chance in the contest.”

  The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans

• “On October 13, 1812, the American 18-gun ship-sloop _Wasp_, Captain”

  The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans

• “On the 15th she recaptured an American brig from the British ship-sloop _Avenger_, though the latter escaped; Capt.”

  The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans

• “Later we built sloops that rated 18 and mounted 22 guns, but when one was captured it was also put down in the British navy list as an 18-gun ship-sloop.”

  The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans

• “The first was an eighteen-gun ship-sloop, which at the very outset of the war captured a British brig-sloop of twenty guns, after an engagement in which the British fought with great gallantry, but were knocked to Pieces, while the Americans escaped comparatively unscathed.”

  Hero Tales from American History

• “She was a ship-sloop of 28 guns -- long 18-pounders -- with a flush deck fore and aft.”

  The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron

• “Congo while engaged upon a search of that river for slavers; and that a small felucca named the _Wasp_ -- a tender to the British ship-sloop”

  The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast

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