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The U. S. sloop-of-war Cyane, Commander HOLLINS, arrived at this port yesterday, with Lieut. STRAIN and party on board. The Cyane left Aspinwall on the 25th of April, and Havana on the 8th.

On Oct. 4, 1855, a U.S. Navy sloop of war, the Decatur, sailed into Elliott Bay to defend Washington Territory against attacks by “Northern Indians.” By late January, a conflict, dubbed “The ...

“I’m going to miss this every morning.” Built in 1854, the sloop of war fought the slave trade off West Africa in the 1850s. It served in the Civil War, protecting Union shipping from ...

The 1854 sloop-of-war returned home on Monday after a two-hour journey from Sparrows Point, where she spent eight weeks in dry dock for repairs at the Tradepoint Atlantic Shipyard. The USS ...

The losers had other priorities as you can imagine. “The Fight of the Hatteras and Alabama” and “The Brooklyn, Sloop-of-War” are examples. Ballad sheets are a printed song format that ...

The 80-foot sloop of war is the oldest shipwreck and the only fully intact British warship ever found in the Great Lakes, Scoville and Kennard said. "To have a Revolutionary War vessel that's ...