Corvette
Description[edit]
The Corvette and the sloop-of-war are the same ship. The French tended to call their vessal of this type corvettes, while the English called them Sloop-of-war. Towards the 18th Century England started to name some sloop-of-war as corvettes.
A sloop-of-war was quite different from a civilian or mercantile sloop, which was a general term for a single masted vessel rigged like what would today be called a gaff cutter (but usually without the square topsails then carried by cutter-rigged vessels), though some sloops of that type did serve in the British Royal Navy, particularly on the Great Lakes of North America.
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 and a main mast but no mizzen.
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.
Stats[edit]
- Crew - 40-175 men (average - 125)
- Passangers - 20
- Speed (Knots) - 13
- Max Guns 24 (12 per broadside)
- Max gun size - 9 lbs
- Hull Points - 250
- Cargo - 40 ton
- Length - 100 ft
- Draft 10 ft
- Manuever - 8
