This is a list of sloops of war of the United States Navy.
Sailing sloops of war
, scuttled 3 September 1814 to prevent capture , lost after 28–29 September 1854 with approx. 197 aboard , captured 14 December 1814
, wrecked 15 November 1846, no fatalities , wrecked 27 May 1863 , wrecked 2 November 1842, 3 killed
, lost in July or August 1815 with 134 aboard
, burned to prevent capture November 1777 , captured 20 April 1814 , wrecked 27 May 1863
, scuttled 20 April 1861
, foundered 8 August 1813, 42 killed , captured 27 April 1777
, foundered with the loss of all hands 10 September 1829 , wrecked 24 April 1778
, lost with all hands after 18 September 1860
USS Ohio (1812), captured 12 August 1814
, wrecked 17–19 July 1841, no fatalities
, burned and exploded 27 April 1863 , captured 1814 , destroyed to prevent capture 14 August 1779
, foundered 8 August 1813, 42 killed
, captured October 1813
, captured 15 October 1812
, lost with all hands October 1814 , wrecked 6 September 1850, no fatalities
Steam sloops of war
Marion class
Saranac class , wrecked 18 June 1875, no fatalities
Dacotah class
Seminole class
Saginaw class , wrecked 29 October 1870 at Kure Atoll, 4 later killed while sailing for help
Pocahontas class
Hartford class
Mohican class , wrecked 2 February 1894, no fatalities
, sunk in collision 24 January 1870, 125 killed
Contoocook class renamed USS Albany USS Manitou (1866) renamed USS Worcester USS Mosholu (1867) renamed USS Severn USS Pushmataha renamed USS Cambridge and (not launched)
Ossipee class
, wrecked 23 August 1862, no fatalities
, sunk by submarine 17 February 1864, 5 killed
Sacramento class
, wrecked 19 June 1867, no fatalities
Ticonderoga class
Algoma-class
formerly USS Algoma formerly USS Kenosha formerly USS Astoria
Swatara class
(1867)
Galena class
Vandalia class , wrecked during the Apia cyclone at Samoa 16 March 1889, 43 killed
Adams class
, rebuilt 1879, wrecked during the Apia cyclone at Samoa 16 March 1889, 8 killed, rebuilt , later classified as IX-10
Alert class (1875), later classified as AS-4 , wrecked 24 November 1877, 98 killed USS Ranger (1876), later classified as PG-23, IX-18
References Chapelle, Howard Irving. The History of the American Sailing Navy; The Ships and Their Development. New York: Norton, 1949. Canney, Donald L. The Old Steam Navy. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 1990.