While conducting gunnery exercises, on 17 July, Sampson spotted the 50-foot sailing sloop, Cecelia Anna, flying distress signals and rescued her 6 crewmen and mascot puppy moments before the sloop sank.

There was, however, a staff of scientists on board the Russian sailing sloop "Enterprise," who collected much valuable information and material in geography, ethnography and natural history.

USS Wasp of the United States Navy was a sailing sloop of war captured by the British in the early months of the War of 1812.

He freighted supplies by canoe, worked as a pilot on a sailing sloop and was a foreman at the Silver Standard mine.

The culminating trial, however, was a regatta of trim sailing sloops, threading a hazardous 'course amid sandbars and shallows.

On the other side of the pier, secured to a similar dock, was a forty-foot sailing sloop.

Her boat, the sailing sloop Varuna, will be on display throughout the show, along with a pictorial display of Aebi's 27,000-mile voyage.

In the past, mussels were caught and harvested with small sailing sloops, the so-called hoogaars and hengst.

The Sandpiper 565 is a sailing sloop with four berth accommodation.