Several times, Reindeer 's crew tried to board Wasp, but the American crew repulsed them on each occasion. The fight lasted only 19 minutes, but during that brief span of time the two ships traded a murderous fire of grape and solid shot. On 28 June 1814, Wasp came upon the 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop HMS Reindeer some 225 miles west of Plymouth, England, and brought her to battle.

Marines aboard USS Wasp engage HMS Reindeer from the 1945 painting by American artist, Staff Sgt.

Engraving by Abel Bowen, from the 1838 'The Naval Monument.' U.S. On 26 June 1814, Wasp captured and scuttled the 325-ton ship Orange Boven. Her fourth victim, 171-ton galiot Henrietta, which she took on 23 June 1814, was given up to the prisoners Wasp had thus far taken. Wasp encountered the 131-ton armed brig Pallas on 18 June 1814, captured her, apparently without resistance, and scuttled her. On 13 June 1814, she took William, a 91-ton brig, and burned her as well. Wasp captured her first vessel, the 207-ton barque Neptune, on 2 June 1814, embarked her crew as prisoners, and burned the prize at sea. She remained at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, until late spring awaiting sailing orders and, upon receipt of them, put to sea on for a war cruise to the western approaches to the English Channel. She was commissioned in February of 1814, with Master Commandant Johnston Blakeley in command. Wasp was a ship-rigged sloop-of-war constructed in 1813 at Newburyport, Massachusetts, by Cross & Merrill. Wasp was lost, cause unknown, in the Atlantic in early autumn, 1814. She carried out two successful raiding voyages against British trade during the summer of 1814, in the course of which she fought and defeated three British warships. She was the fifth United States Navy ship to carry that name.

USS Wasp was a sloop-of-war that served in the United States Navy in 1814 during the War of 1812. Cross & Merrill, Newburyport, Massachusetts

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