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  Re: French Squadron pics
 
(...) Ahh, I think we've hit upon the sloop crisis. I've come to associate 'sloop' with 'corvette' -- a slightly-smaller-than-a-frigate vessel, Brig- or Ship-rigged (oh, back then my understanding is that anything less than 3 masts wasn't considered (...) (23 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates)
 
  Re: French Squadron pics
 
(...) Ahhh.... from a simple chart I saw at a small maritime museum last week (no reference on it, and no possibility of a copy, unfortunately), a sloop is one masted fore-and-aft rigged with two sails, a cutter is one masted fore-and-aft rigged (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates)

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