Screw sloop

USS Alaska, a screw sloop

A screw sloop is a propeller-driven sloop-of-war. They were popularized in the mid-19th century, during the introduction of the steam engine and the transition of fleets to this new technology.[1]

  1. ^ Bennett 1900, p. 29.

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