Sloop (1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica article)
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 1911
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Description
A sloop is a small sailing vessel with one mast, and a nautical entry in the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica sets out its rig. The mast is rigged fore and aft, in the phrase of sailors. The sails carried are a mainsail, a gaff topsail, a jib, and a fore staysail. Little in rig parts a sloop from a cutter, the entry says.
The two terms are often used without distinction between them. Some draw a line by the bowsprit, fixed in a sloop and running in a cutter. In the sailing and early steam navy, a sloop meant something else. It was a small corvette, ship rigged, with all its guns on the upper deck. The word itself was borrowed from the Dutch sloep, a boat. Kindred words live in French, Spanish, and Italian for a light boat.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Encyclopaedia Britannica |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1911 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1005 B |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Wikisource — 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica |
Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Sloop