Initially classed simply as a steam vessel, she was re-classed as a second-class steam sloop when that categorisation was introduced on 31 May 1844.

The steam sloop decommissioned at Boston Navy Yard on 26 April and remained there - repairing - until recommissioning on 18 August 1866.

Admiral Matthew Perry commanded the original steam sloop on his 1854 trip to the Far East that ended Japan's isolation from the West.

She was classified as a steam sloop and was built in 1816 at Deptford Dockyard specifically for an exploration of the Congo River.

In 1867-1869 he was assigned to the steam frigate Franklin and steam sloop of war Ticonderoga, both operating in European waters.

The second USS Mohican was a steam sloop of war in the United States Navy.

She was damaged when shells from the steam sloop of war burst off her port beam.

The second Richmond was wooden steam sloop of war, launched in 1860.

The new side-wheel steam sloop of war got underway on 10 April 1850 for a trial cruise in the North Atlantic.

Passed Midshipman Beach reported for duty on board the wooden steam sloop of war Richmond.