USS ''Wasp'' was a

sloop A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...

that served in the U.S. Navy from 1813 to 1814. ''Wasp'' was chartered on Lake Champlain late in the summer of 1813 and served as a tender for Commodore

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's fleet in the War of 1812 during the latter part of 1813 and into 1814. ''Wasp'' saw no combat. As she was small and a poor sailer, the Navy returned her to her owners early in 1814. Her guns were transferred to the newly-launched

schooner A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoon ...

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