sloop

Preposition: of

• war: But, contrary to the course I thought he would pursue, Hillyar brought with him the Cherub sloop of war.

Converse of object

• build: The eight sloops recently built in his Majesty's Yards have been ordered to their stations to prevent the running of wool from Ireland.
• capture: He was sent back to England with the captured sloop Indian, and was promoted to Lieutenant on 26th December 1812.
• launch: The third was a Bridgewater class sloop launched at Devonport in 1930.
• see: Soon after we saw a sloop, gave her chase and came up with her: had been trading among the French.
• purchase: The Society purchased the sloop ' AMY HOWSON ' in 1976 with Financial assistance from the Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts.
• send: Hearing of the presence of the " Revenge " , the governor of Jamaica, sent an armed sloop to intervene.

Adjective modifier

• British: Ranger later captured the British sloop of war Drake off the coast of Ireland on 24 April and pillaged the British coast.
• Indian: A few days later he sailed for home in the INDIAN sloop.
• wooden: Fourth Zebra was a wooden screw sloop, launched 13th November 1860.
• Spanish: On 17th March 1744 a Spanish sloop was taken by Capt. FRANKLAND and carried into Charlestown, S. Carolina.
• French: In action 7th October, 1756, with a French sloop of greater force, and her captain, James Holbourne, was killed.
• new: Charles Smith was appointed Captain of Spy, one of the new sloops building at Chatham.

Modifies a noun

• rig: With her fin keel, wheel steering and sloop rig she is an easy boat to sail.

Noun used with modifier

• brig: A 10-gun brig sloop of the Cherokee class she was two years old and the first command of her captain, Cdr.
• screw: Fourth Zebra was a wooden screw sloop, launched 13th November 1860.
• Bermudan: It has a hard chine hull powered with a conventional bermudan sloop rig.
• masthead: The mast has masthead sloop rigging, with two lowers beneath the spreaders.
• escort: More often than not, however, the vessels were used as patrol or convoy escort sloops.
• gun: Foreground left is HMS Snake, an eighteen gun sloop from Nelson's era.