USS Wasp (1814)

USS Wasp
USS Wasp
History
United States
NameUSS Wasp
NamesakeWasp
BuilderCross & Merrill, Newburyport, Massachusetts
LaunchedSeptember 18, 1813
CommissionedFebruary 1814
FateDisappeared October 1814
General characteristics
TypeSloop-of-war
Tonnage509
Length117 ft 0 in (35.66 m)
Beam31 ft 6 in (9.60 m)
Draft14 ft 6 in (4.42 m)
Sail planShip-rigged
Complement173 officers and enlisted men
Armament
  • 2 × long 12-pounder guns
  • 20 × 32-pounder carronades

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.