sloop

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Examples of sloop

  • An employee of the defendant unmoored the sloop, which was then driven upon the shore by the storm.

  • The northern fleet consisted of different types of vessels comprising sloops, small schooners and ketches.

  • The ketches and the sloops often managed to make two voyages in a season.

  • Sampson was soon joined by three more fishing sloops and two steam vessels, all seeking shelter from the worsening conditions.

  • I should like now to refer to submarines and sloops.

  • The information asked for is as follows: 10 destroyers, 20 sweepers, 6 sloops, 16 drifters, and 28 trawlers.

  • In 1914, we started with 260 sloops and destroyers and other small vessels, and in 1918 we had actually 55s at sea.

  • If you discuss the question of convoys solely as relating to sloops, you will only touch the fringe of it.

  • The two mine-sweepers and one survey sloop belong to the latter class.

  • The allocation of the orders for the sloop mine-sweepers will be announced within the next few days.

  • We must have masses of these small craft, whether they be called sloops or destroyers.

  • The total estimate for dockyard labour on the ships of the 1929 construction programme, including four sloops not mentioned in the question, is approximately £775,000.

  • Of course there are the seaplane and aircraft carriers and the sloops.

  • Two sloops are to be sent out to take their place.

  • The numbers are, for a cruiser 500 to 550, for a destroyer 130, for a sloop 180.

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