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Today, the colonial-era port Nelson's Dockyard is a UNESCO World Heritage Site complete with two boutique hotels, a museum, local craft shops, cafes and restaurants, and a marina filled with everything from stately sloops to gaudy megayachts.
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Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2025
In the Caribbean, wandering yachtsmen on sloops and catamarans know these masts well.
—Joe Sills, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
To ensure Blackbeard was neutralized, Spotswood gave Robert Maynard, an officer in the Royal Navy, control of 60 men and two sloops—small sailboats that lacked cannons but could pursue Blackbeard in the narrow inlets and shallows of the coast.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
Twenty men on Maynard’s sloop died, and Blackbeard presumed the rest of the crew dead.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
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Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2025
In the Caribbean, wandering yachtsmen on sloops and catamarans know these masts well.
—Joe Sills, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
To ensure Blackbeard was neutralized, Spotswood gave Robert Maynard, an officer in the Royal Navy, control of 60 men and two sloops—small sailboats that lacked cannons but could pursue Blackbeard in the narrow inlets and shallows of the coast.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
Twenty men on Maynard’s sloop died, and Blackbeard presumed the rest of the crew dead.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Sloop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sloop. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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sloop
noun
: a sailboat with one mast and a fore-and-aft mainsail and jib
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