List of sloops of war of the United States Navy

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.