How sloops overlapped with steam corvettes

Were sloops successors to the later steam corvettes?

Their roles overlapped, and different navies used different names. World War II brought a sharper distinction based on merchant or naval construction standards.

Sloops and later steam corvettes could perform much the same work. The name depended partly on the navy using it. During World War II, corvette increasingly meant a vessel built to merchant standards, while a sloop used naval standards. Frigates combined elements of both construction approaches.