USS Wasp
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Ten ships of the United States Navy
have borne the name USS Wasp, after the stinging insect
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was a merchant schooner originally named Scorpion and purchased by the Continental Navy in late 1775. In the fall of 1777, the Wasp was run aground, set on fire, and destroyed when its gunpowder exploded. was a sloop constructed in 1806 and commissioned some time in 1807. This Wasp operated along the coast of the U.S. Captured during the War of 1812, the Wasp served briefly in the Royal Navy as HMS Peacock and was lost off the Virginia Capes in 1813. was a schooner built in 1810. She was returned to her owners in November 1812. Rearmed and refitted, she was chartered to the U.S. Navy during the summer of 1813. She is presumed sold after 1814. was a sloop chartered on Lake Champlain in 1813. She was returned to her owners in early 1814. was a ship-rigged sloop-of-war constructed in 1813 and commissioned in early 1814. The Wasp was apparently lost in a storm at sea in late November 1814., originally the captured Confederate iron-hulled sidewheel steamer CSS Emma Henry, was renamed Wasp in June 1865. In 1876 she was found unfit for further service and sold., was a steam yacht commissioned at New York on 11 April 1898. From the end of 1898 the Wasp was used as a training ship and recruiting tool. This Wasp was decommissioned and sold in 1919., laid down in 1936, was an aircraft carrier that saw action in World War II in the Atlantic and Pacific, until sunk by Japanese submarine I-19 in September 1942. replaced the previous Wasp (CV-7) in 1943 and served until 1972. is an amphibious assault ship launched in 1989 and on active service as of 2011.
An eleventh vessel, , a steel-hulled motorboat, was leased by the U.S. Navy and performed patrol duties in 1917, but was never entered into the Naval Vessel Register
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United States Navy
The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
have borne the name USS Wasp, after the stinging insect
Wasp
The term wasp is typically defined as any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor an ant. Almost every pest insect species has at least one wasp species that preys upon it or parasitizes it, making wasps critically important in natural control of their...
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was a merchant schooner originally named Scorpion and purchased by the Continental Navy in late 1775. In the fall of 1777, the Wasp was run aground, set on fire, and destroyed when its gunpowder exploded. was a sloop constructed in 1806 and commissioned some time in 1807. This Wasp operated along the coast of the U.S. Captured during the War of 1812, the Wasp served briefly in the Royal Navy as HMS Peacock and was lost off the Virginia Capes in 1813. was a schooner built in 1810. She was returned to her owners in November 1812. Rearmed and refitted, she was chartered to the U.S. Navy during the summer of 1813. She is presumed sold after 1814. was a sloop chartered on Lake Champlain in 1813. She was returned to her owners in early 1814. was a ship-rigged sloop-of-war constructed in 1813 and commissioned in early 1814. The Wasp was apparently lost in a storm at sea in late November 1814., originally the captured Confederate iron-hulled sidewheel steamer CSS Emma Henry, was renamed Wasp in June 1865. In 1876 she was found unfit for further service and sold., was a steam yacht commissioned at New York on 11 April 1898. From the end of 1898 the Wasp was used as a training ship and recruiting tool. This Wasp was decommissioned and sold in 1919., laid down in 1936, was an aircraft carrier that saw action in World War II in the Atlantic and Pacific, until sunk by Japanese submarine I-19 in September 1942. replaced the previous Wasp (CV-7) in 1943 and served until 1972. is an amphibious assault ship launched in 1989 and on active service as of 2011.
An eleventh vessel, , a steel-hulled motorboat, was leased by the U.S. Navy and performed patrol duties in 1917, but was never entered into the Naval Vessel Register
Naval Vessel Register
The Naval Vessel Register is the official inventory of ships and service craft in custody of or titled by the United States Navy. It contains information on ships and service craft that make up the official inventory of the Navy from the time a vessel is authorized through its life cycle and...
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