USS Wasp (1893)

USS Wasp at the Norfolk Navy Yard at Portsmouth, Virginia, on 19 November 1898.
History
United States
Name	Columbia USS Wasp
Namesake	The wasp, a stinging insect
Builder	William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia Hull built under sub-contract by Charles Hillman Company
Yard number	274
Laid down	1893
Launched	23 August 1893
Completed	February 1894
Acquired	1898
Commissioned	11 April 1898
Decommissioned	1 December 1919
Stricken	13 November 1919
Identification	Yacht Columbia official number 127018 signal letters KLVB
Fate	Sold 20 September 1921
General characteristics
Type	Armed yacht
Tonnage	380 GRT
Displacement	Yacht 526 cruising, 436 racing Navy 630 tons
Length	202 ft (61.6 m) length overall 180 ft 0 in (54.86 m) on load waterline
Beam	23 ft 0 in (7.01 m)
Draft	Yacht 10 ft 9 in (3.3 m) Navy 12 ft 0 in (3.66 m)
Speed	Yacht 17.85 knots (20.54 mph; 33.06 km/h) mean trials Navy 16.5 knots
Complement	55 officers and enlisted men
Armament	4 × 6-pounder guns 2 × Colt machine guns

The seventh USS Wasp was the former yacht Columbia, purchased by the U.S. Navy and converted to an armed yacht serving from 1898 to 1919, with service in the Spanish–American War and World War I.