Sloop

A sloop is a fore-and-aft rigged ship, normally with only one mast although larger ships with two or even three masts could also be refrede to as sloops or sloops-of-war. Sloops were used both as merchant ships as well as pirate ships, in fact it was the most common type of pirate ships as they were fast and agile and required a very small minimal crew (even a one-man crew could be enough for a small sloop) but could also carry up to 100 men. Pirate sloops normally carried 60 to 80 crewmen and 0 to 16 guns on one deck on the sides. Navy sloops had a comparable crew and artillery but merchant ships had much smaller crews. The sloop is one of the three ship classes in Pirates of the Caribbean Online.

Notable sloops

 * Albion
 * Providence