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(‎Added [fr] description: Au temps de la marine à voile, le sloop-de-guerre (en anglais : sloop-of-war) désigne, à partir du xviiie siècle dans l'Empire britannique, les navires militaires plus petits que les frégates à un, deux ou trois mâts)
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Au temps de la marine à voile, le sloop-de-guerre (en anglais : sloop-of-war) désigne, à partir du xviiie siècle dans l'Empire britannique, les navires militaires plus petits que les frégates à un, deux ou trois mâts

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in the Royal Navy a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns; the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above; thus, the term sloop-of-war encompassed all unrated combat vessels (18th century and most of the 19th)
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Sloop-of-war
in the Royal Navy a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns; the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above; thus, the term sloop-of-war encompassed all unrated combat vessels (18th century and most of the 19th)

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