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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Age of Sail sloops, Oyster sloops, Sloop classes, Sloops of Australia, Cruizer class brig-sloop, Texan sloop-of-war Austin, Princess Royal, Cadmus class sloop, Cherokee class brig-sloop, P class sloop, Cruizer class sloop, Spray, Rosario class sloop, Condor class sloop, Arabis class sloop, O'Day Mariner, Cormorant class ship-sloop, 24 class sloop, Osprey class sloop, Satellite class sloop, Alert class sloop, Phoenix class sloop, Camelion class sloop, Greyhound class sloop, Restauration, Fantome class sloop, Adventure, Eclipse class sloop, Beagle class sloop, Racer class sloop, Christeen, Amazon class sloop, Spanish sloop Jorge Juan, Nymphe class sloop, Priscilla, Swallow class sloop, Modesty, Seagull class brig-sloop, Bee, Kingfisher, Crocus class brig-sloop, Nellie, USS Growler, Fly class brig-sloop, Norfolk, Hawkesbury Packet, George, Schooner Rebecca, USS Fair American, Hazard, Recovery, Jane, Nancy, Windsor, Argument, Charlotte, Contest, Whale. Excerpt: The Cruizer class was an 18-gun class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. Brig-sloops were the same as ship-sloops except for their rigging. A ship-sloop was rigged with three masts whereas a brig-sloop was rigged as a brig with two masts - a fore mast and a main mast. The Cruizer class was the most numerous class of warships built by the British during the Napoleonic wars, with 110 vessels built to this design, and the second most numerous class of sailing warship built to a single design for any navy at any time, after the smaller 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloops. Of the vessels in the class, eight (8%) were lost to the enemy, either destroyed or taken. Another was taken, but retaken. Fourteen (13%) were wrecked while in British service. Lastly, four (4%) foundered while in British service. In all cases of foundering and in many cases of wrecking all the crew wa...
