Finding the schooner abandoned, Montgomery burned her, then captured a large sloop.
Additionally thirty large sloops were to be prepared to row any ship to safety in case of an emergency.
At the time of her launch, she was the largest sloop ever build and the tallest mast ever built.
They burned a saw-mill, a large sloop, and sundry houses, and killed many of their cattle.
These large sloops, with their crews, were hired for weekends, and sloop racing became very popular in Bermuda throughout the century.
Although square topsails were reportedly in use in the 1880s, the form used today soon developed, basically scaled down from the larger sloops.
The Phoenix had at this time been altered to resemble from a distance a large sloop of war.
Decatur, a large sloop of 566 tons, was built in 1838 and 1839 at New York Navy Yard.
The French sloop, large in his glass, was a fair way off.
On larger sloops, the large sails have high loads, and one must manage them with winches or multiple purchase block-and-tackle devices.