Canada's historic places site put the Wasp's disappearance at this date, although know one knows for sure when it happened.
From Wikipedia.
The USS Wasp was a sloop-of-war and the 5th ship in the US Navy to bear the name. In the summer of 1814 it had two very successful raids on British shipping and fought and defeated three British warships.
It was lost in the Atlantic Ocean in early autumn 1814, cause unknown. It just never showed up anywhere.
Stats: 509 tons, 117.8 feet long, 31.6 beam, 173 crew. Armament: two long 12-pdr. gins and twenty 32-pdr. carronades.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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