USS Wasp (1807)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The second USS Wasp of the United States Navy was a sailing sloop of war captured by the British in the early months of the War of 1812. She was constructed in 1806 at the Washington Navy Yard, was commissioned sometime in 1807, Master Commandant John Smith in command. In 1812 she captured HMS Frolic, but was immediately herself captured. The British took her into service first as HMS Loup Cervier and then as HMS Peacock. She was lost, presumed foundered with all hands, in mid-1814.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 5512139991
• ISBN13: 9785512139998
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Book on Demand Ltd.
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"