page_title: Sloop
section_title: Related pages
hierarchical_section_title: Sloop / Related pages
caption_attribution_description: USS Constellation
context_page_description: A sloop is a sailboat usually with one mast and fore-and-aft rigged sails. It can also describe a square rigged sailing ship of two or more masts which is sometimes called a sloop of war. The French called them corvettes. Originally the definition of a sloop was vague. A 1750 book said sloops "are sailed and masted as men's fancies lead them, sometimes with one mast, with two, and with three." Modern recreational sloops are almost always one-masted sailing ships with fore-and-aft sails. Their simple layout makes them popular with amateur sailors. The sloop is a manageable sailboat layout up to a length of about 45 feet.
context_section_description: Frigate
  Schooner
  Brig
  Brigantine
  Cutter (boat)
  J-class yacht
  Lugger
  Keelboat
  Yacht
  Skerry cruiser
  Smack (ship)
  Yawl
  Thames sailing barge
  Pocket cruiser
caption: USS Constellation (1854) a U.S. sloop-of-war; the last sailing warship in US Navy
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