USS Wasp (1814)

USS Wasp
History
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
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 fought and defeated two British brig-sloops. Wasp was lost, cause unknown, in the Atlantic in early autumn, 1814.