Talk:Sloop-of-war

message: :The page says, "Especially famous were British mass-produced sloops of Flower-class of the first world war.", but the Flower class we've got is the Flower class corvette of World War II. The external link (/naval_sloops_.htm) and the List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy both suggest that the WWI sloops with flower names were not all lumped together but were classified as Acacia class, etc.
:—wwoods 04:43, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Flower class" sloops? 

message: The USS Constellation is not a Sloop-of-War.  It is a Frigate.  This picture should be removed from this page.
Sir Knight Michael (talk) 20:40, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you thinking of the original 1797 Constellation, which was indeed a frigate? The photograph is of the 1854 USS Constellation. Salmanazar (talk) 16:34, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  USS Constellation 

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thread_title: File:18 gun sloop.JPG Nominated for Deletion

message: This article seems to focus entirely on usage by the British navy.  Since I arrived here from an article on US navy sloops-of-war, I am at a complete loss of how to understand the various ships described therein.  The first ship there is a 28 gun ship while this article says that sloops have less than 20 guns.  I think this article should simplify the first section along the lines of "A sloop of war is a warship that is smaller than a Frigate. In the Royal Navy rating system they were ships with less than 20 guns."  Alternatively, information about how the US navy used the term should be added to the article I got here from. Rockphed (talk) 15:24, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: To make my confusion even greater, this article seems to be fighting with corvette over the position for "ships just smaller than a frigate.Rockphed (talk) 04:03, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too British? 

message: There exists stub article screw sloop with a fair number, 198, of inbound links.  It should perhaps be merged to Steam frigate or 
to sloop-of-war (perhaps specifically to Sloop-of-war#Decline, which gives a little context perhaps worth consulting before jumping along its link to Steam frigate).  Please comment at informal merger proposal discussion, at Talk:Screw sloop#Merge (revived in 2020). --Doncram (talk) 22:10, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  notice of possible merger of "screw sloop"