"The rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above thus, the term sloop-of-war encompassed all the unrated combat vessels, including the very small gun-brigs and cutters." Here let me quote directly from the source you provided within the first two sentences, eh? It has been said repeatedly that this game does NOT take place during the "golden-age of You didn't do much research before you posted that did you? You did not even attempt to read the article, did you? That's sad. The third sail afforded the sloop greater mobility and the ability to back sail. "ship rigged") sloops appeared during the 1740s, and from the mid-1750s most new sloops were built with a three-masted (ship) rig. And this is what you did not bother to read: I didn't bother to read? We are talking about sloops that go as fast as what the OP stated. Sloops during the Golden Age of Piracy (1650 to 1725) were defined as single-masted, square sailed vessels. ![]() The term referred more to the role of the vessel than the design, thus the subcategories such as “ship sloop” (three masts) and “brig sloop” (two masts). Sloop-of-war is a more generic nomenclature for a variety of vessels employed by the Royal Navy from the late 18th century onward. ![]() ![]() If you actually bothered to read the article you posted, you’d understand that it discussed the sloop-of-war, which is not the same as a sloop.
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