(1) The colony of Victoria, also concerned with its security, acquired the steam sloop Victoria in 1855.

(2) Fortunately, the skipper has both dogs, as well as kids and crew, in life jackets aboard the family sloop Off Call.

(3) In fact, Australia lost just two ships in that campaign - the light cruiser Perth and the small sloop Yarra.

(4) Before the war, the Admiralty had developed a sloop design for convoy escort work.

(5) From May 1941 to February 1943 Parker was in HMS Fareham, a sloop operating off the coast of Cyraniaca in support of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

(6) When he stood, he glanced out the window and was able to see just the top of the mast of the anchored sloop .

(7) Matt followed Katherine's lead and moved out onto the tiny foredeck of the sloop .

(8) The sloop 's rudder had dislodged, leaving a gaping hole below the waterline that could not be closed.

(9) For most coastal cruising conditions the sloop would be the preferred rig on this size boat but, perhaps for aesthetic reasons, most were rigged with the double headsail arrangement.

(10) I like storms even though one tried to kill me a few years ago, late at night on a 36-foot sloop with its full mainsail still stupidly up, twenty miles from the nearest shore of Lake Superior.

(11) A small sloop approaches the shore ferrying a group of passengers from Gloucester.

(12) Shots were fired from behind and an all out sea battle began, the sloop versus three heavily armed galleons.

(13) He returned to Australia in 1941 and was appointed in command of the sloop HMAS Yarra in January 1942.

(14) In July 1798, Stephen Decatur, on the sloop Delaware, captured the French schooner Croyable off New Jersey.

(15) Johnson is a tacky tuna boat owner who buys the sloop out from under Ross, but then offers him a chance to u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510buy it backu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb by indenturing him to captain his fishing fleet.

(16) During WWII, while in command of the sloop HMAS Yarra, he and his ship's company put up a valiant fight to protect an Allied convoy from Japanese attack in the Java Sea.

(17) In addition, the wind is often light and, when it blows, amazingly fluky - I can remember sailing almost completely around one of the San Juans without touching our sloop 's sheets.

(18) A collection of tattered men o'war and patched sloops is firing directly over the decks of the old admiral's flagship and into the area of HMS Brown.

(19) Of the forty vessels registered in that year, thirty-seven were described as lighters, one as a boat and two as sloops .

(20) Not that there was any shortage of new sailing craft on display - mostly glittering sloops with racing pedigrees as long as your arm.