Wasp (1809 Ship)
''Wasp'' was launched at Hull in 1809. She traded as a West Indiaman and in 1812 she was lengthened, which increased her burthen to 319 tons. This does not appear in the issues of ''Lloyd's Register'' that are the basis for the table below, but does appear in a different volume of a ''Register of Shipping''. After the commencement of the War of 1812 she sailed under a letter of marque that too recorded her burthen as 319 tons. *Letter of marque: Edward Archer *Letter of marque: John Crabtree ''Wasp'' and Crabtree arrived at Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, St Thomas on 10 January 1814. Crabtree reported that the day before he had encountered an American privateer west of Saba Island, United States Virgin Islands, Saba but that it had sailed away when he gave chase, fearing that ''Wasp'' was a warship. On 11 January, the British merchantman Hibernia (1810 ship), ''Hibernia'', of 22 men and six guns, Lennon, master, too encountered the privateer. The privateer was , of 14 guns and ...
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