List of sloops of war of the United States Navy

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USS Vincennes

This is a list of sloops of war of the United States Navy.

Sailing sloops of war

  • USS Adams (1799), scuttled 3 September 1814 to prevent capture
  • USS Albany (1846), lost after 28–29 September 1854 with approx. 197 aboard
  • USS Alligator (1813), captured 14 December 1814
  • USS Belle Italia (1862)
  • USS Boston (1825), wrecked 15 November 1846, no fatalities
  • USS Brockenborough (1862), wrecked 27 May 1863
  • USS Concord (1828), wrecked 2 November 1842, 3 killed
  • USS Constellation (1854)
  • USS Cyane (1837)
  • USS Dale (1839)
  • USS Decatur (1839)
  • USS Eagle (1812)
  • USS Epervier (1814), lost in July or August 1815 with 134 aboard
  • USS Erie (1813)
  • USS Fair American (1812)
  • USS Fairfield (1828)
  • USS Falmouth (1827)
  • USS Fly (1776), burned to prevent capture November 1777
  • USS Frolic (1813), captured 20 April 1814
  • USS G. L. Brockenborough (1862), wrecked 27 May 1863
  • USS Ganges (1794)
  • USS Germantown (1846), scuttled 20 April 1861
  • USS Granite (1862)
  • USS Growler (1812 sloop)
  • USS Hamilton (1812), foundered 8 August 1813, 42 killed
  • USS Hornet (1775), captured 27 April 1777
  • USS Hornet (1805 sloop)
  • USS Hornet (1805 brig), foundered with the loss of all hands 10 September 1829
  • USS Independence (1776 sloop), wrecked 24 April 1778
  • USS Jamestown (1844)
  • USS Julia (1863)
  • USS Levant (1837), lost with all hands after 18 September 1860
  • USS Lexington (1825)
  • USS Louisiana (1812)
  • USS Marion (1839)
  • USS Maryland (1799)
  • USS Natchez (1827)
  • USS Ohio (1812), captured 12 August 1814
  • USS Ontario (1813)
  • USS Peacock (1813)
  • USS Peacock (1828), wrecked 17–19 July 1841, no fatalities
  • USS Plymouth (1844)
  • USS Portsmouth (1843)
  • USS Preble (1839), burned and exploded 27 April 1863
  • USS President (1812), captured 1814
  • USS Providence (1775), destroyed to prevent capture 14 August 1779
  • USS Rosalie (1863)
  • USS Saratoga (1842)
  • USS Scourge (1804)
  • USS Scourge (1812), foundered 8 August 1813, 42 killed
  • USS St. Louis (1828)
  • USS St. Mary's (1844)
  • USS Ticonderoga (1814)
  • USS Trippe (1812), captured October 1813
  • USS Trumbull (1799)
  • USS Vandalia (1828)
  • USS Vincennes (1826)
  • USS Warren (1827)
  • USS Wasp (1807), captured 15 October 1812
  • USS Wasp (1813)
  • USS Wasp (1814), lost with all hands October 1814
  • USS Yorktown (1839), wrecked 6 September 1850, no fatalities

Steam sloops of war

Marion class

  • USS Marion (1839)

Saranac class

  • USS Saranac (1848), wrecked 18 June 1875, no fatalities

Wyoming class

  • USS Wyoming (1859)
  • USS Tuscarora (1861)

Dacotah class

  • USS Dacotah (1859)

Seminole class

  • USS Seminole (1859)
  • USS Narragansett (1859)

Saginaw class

  • USS Saginaw (1859), wrecked 29 October 1870 at Kure Atoll, 4 later killed while sailing for help

Pocahontas class

  • USS Pocahontas (1852)

Hartford class

  • USS Brooklyn (1858)
  • USS Hartford (1858)
  • USS Richmond (1860)
  • USS Lancaster (1858)
  • USS Pensacola (1859)

Mohican class

  • USS Kearsarge (1861), wrecked 2 February 1894, no fatalities
  • USS Mohican (1859)
  • USS Iroquois (1859)
  • USS Oneida (1861), sunk in collision 24 January 1870, 125 killed
  • USS Tuscarora (1861)
  • USS Wachusett (1861)

Contoocook class

  • USS Contoocook (1864) renamed USS Albany
  • USS Manitou (1866) renamed USS Worcester
  • USS Mosholu (1867) renamed USS Severn
  • USS Pushmataha renamed USS Cambridge and USS Congress (1868)
  • USS Pompanoosuc (not launched)

Java class

  • USS Antietam (1875)
  • USS Guerriere (1865)
  • USS Illinois (1864)
  • USS Java (1863)
  • USS Kewaydin (1869)
  • USS Minnetonka (1867)
  • USS Ontario (1863)

Ossipee class

  • USS Ossipee (1861)
  • USS Adirondack (1861), wrecked 23 August 1862, no fatalities
  • USS Juniata (1862)
  • USS Housatonic (1861), sunk by submarine 17 February 1864, 5 killed

Sacramento class

  • USS Canandaigua (1862)
  • USS Monongahela (1862)
  • USS Sacramento (1862), wrecked 19 June 1867, no fatalities
  • USS Shenandoah (1862)

Ticonderoga class

  • USS Ticonderoga (1863)
  • USS Lackawanna (1862)

Alaska class

  • USS Alaska (1868)
  • USS Benicia (1868) formerly USS Algoma
  • USS Plymouth (1867) formerly USS Kenosha
  • USS Omaha (1869) formerly USS Astoria

Swatara class

  • USS Resaca (1865)
  • USS Swatara (1865)
  • USS Quinnebaug (1866)
  • USS Nantasket (1867)

Galena class

  • USS Mohican (1883)
  • USS Quinnebaug (1875)
  • USS Swatara (1873)

Vandalia class

  • USS Vandalia (1876), wrecked during the Apia cyclone at Samoa 16 March 1889, 43 killed
  • USS Mohican (1883)

Adams class

  • USS Enterprise (1874)
  • USS Adams (1874)
  • USS Alliance (1877)
  • USS Nipsic, rebuilt 1879, wrecked during the Apia cyclone at Samoa 16 March 1889, 8 killed, rebuilt
  • USS Essex (1876), later classified as IX-10

Alert class

  • USS Alert (1875), later classified as AS-4
  • USS Huron (1875), wrecked 24 November 1877, 98 killed
  • USS Ranger (1876), later classified as PG-23, IX-18

References

  • Chapelle, Howard Irving. The History of the American Sailing Navy; The Ships and Their Development. New York: Norton, 1949.
  • Canney, Donald L. The Old Steam Navy. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 1990. ISBN 0-87021-004-1 ISBN 0870215868
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