&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:USS_Wasp_1814.jpg) USS Wasp
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Wasp |
| Namesake | Wasp |
| Builder | Cross & Merrill, Newburyport, Massachusetts |
| Launched | September 18, 1813 |
| Commissioned | February 1814 |
| Fate | Disappeared October 1814 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Sloop-of-war |
| Tonnage | 509 |
| Length | 117 ft 0 in (35.66 m) |
| Beam | 31 ft 6 in (9.60 m) |
| Draft | 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m) |
| Sail plan | Ship-rigged |
| Complement | 173 officers and enlisted men |
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USS Wasp was a sloop-of-war that served in the United States Navy in 1814 during the War of 1812. She was the fifth United States Navy ship to carry that name. She carried out two successful raiding voyages against British trade during the summer of 1814, in the course of which she captured two brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. Wasp was lost, cause unknown, in the Atlantic in early autumn, 1814.