1. The USS Constellation is a sloop-of-war, the last sail-only warship designed and built by the United States Navy

2. Sloop-of-war Concord, launched in 1828, was "Christened by a young lady of Portsmouth." This is the first known instance of a woman sponsoring a United States Navy vessel

3. Nor were they eager to court danger in their pursuit of profit; they had been told that the Ranger ’s mission was to be “an Agreable Voyage in this pleasant Season of the Year.” Such were the expectations of the men handling Jones’s imperfect 100-foot sloop of war as she entered the Irish Sea.

4. The sloop-of-war and the Revenue cutter, its companion, had been lying at anchor some hundred yards from the end of the pier, and every now and then the sailor glanced at the trim vessels with their white sails and the sloop's carefully-squared yards -- all "Ataunto," as he termed it -- and more than one sigh escaped