USS Wasp captures the HMS Frolic |Career (United States)|
|Builder:||Washington Navy Yard| |Fate:||Captured, 15 October
1812 As HMS Peacock, lost off Virginia Capes, 1814 |Name:||HMS
Loup Cervier| |Acquired:||18 December 1812 (by capture)|
|Fate:||Foundered July 1814| |General characteristics |
|Displacement:||450 long tons (460 t)| |Tons burthen:||43424⁄98
(bm)| |Length:||105 ft 10 1⁄2 in (32.271 m) (overall); 85 ft 10
1⁄2 in (26.175 m) (keel)| |Beam:||30 ft 10 in (9.40 m)|
|Draft:||14 ft 2 in (4.32 m)| |Depth of hold:||14 ft 0 in (4.27
m)| US Service:140 officers and enlisted US service:16 ×
32-pounder carronades + 2 × 12-pounder guns 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
Lo