Upon realizing that the sloop was the favorite vessel of pirates and smugglers, the Navy and coast guard adopted the sloop - and its purpose-built warship cousin, the Cutter - for pirate-hunting ...

NEWPORT, R. I. Oct. 23. - The county authorities who, on Saturday seized the pirate sloop Doroda, now have the sloop Bessie, which approached the Doroda and tried to communicate with it ...

"The Hidden History of Pirates." The program used historical documents, input from experts, and re-enactments featuring local actors and others aboard the sloop Providence. 75TH ANNIVERSARY ...

The arrest of Otto Steifel in Providence to-day proved of great importance in clearing up the mystery about the sloop Dorado and the plunder found on the two pirate boats held here. Steifel ...