sloop of war

This was attacked by the sloop-of-war, but the American sharpshooters made things lively for her.

General Howe decided that this would never do, and sent a frigate and a sloop-of-war down the river to put an end to the trouble.

He spread his sails in a hurry and drove his sloop-of-war right in the track of the Austrian ship.

Farragut chose the sloop-of-war Hartford for his flagship and sailed merrily away for the mighty river.

He was afterwards, when in command of the Helena sloop-of-war, lost with all his crew in her on the coast of Holland.