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=Description=
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=
* 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

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