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USS Wasp (1810)

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was sold at auction at Baltimore. The two merchants who purchased her, Mr. Joseph Lane and Mr. Thomas White, refitted her, rearmed her with a long 4-pounder, and sent her to sea as a privateer. Her second cruise appears to have met with even less success than her first, for the last reference to her
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was in US Naval service during the summer of 1813, this record may relate to that period rather than to 1814 or 1815. It is also possible that this record relates to a later
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as a dispatch boat during the summer of 1813. She passed her brief period of naval service without incident, and the U.S. Navy returned her to her owners that autumn.
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managed to outsail her pursuer; after sailing through a hurricane that cost her both her masts she finally returned to Baltimore on 28 November 1812.
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newspaper ran on 4 August 1814 which called her owners to a meeting on 11 August 1814 to settle accounts. Presumably, she was sold.
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owners sold her to a group of businessmen who refitted and rearmed her with a long 9-pounder and then chartered her to the
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government in July 1812 when she put to sea for a privateering foray into the
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doing a great business among the English merchant ships". As
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History of the American Privateers, and Letters-Of-Marque
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Index

USS Wasp
wasp
insect
Schooner
schooner
schooner
U.S. Navy
Baltimore
Maryland
privateer
United States
West Indies
Sixth Rate
Post-ship
HMS Garland
Savannah
Georgia
United States Navy
Baltimore American
privateer
Salem, Massachusetts
Canaries
Coggeshall (1856)
cite book
link
public domain
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
Categories
Age of Sail naval ships of the United States
War of 1812 ships of the United States

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