USS Wasp vs HMS Frolic

18 October 1812, Off the coast of Virginia

American victory, reversed the same day: both ships taken by Poictiers

Five days out of the Delaware, Jacob Jones's sloop Wasp came on a British convoy from Honduras scattered by a gale, guarded by the brig-sloop Frolic. Both ships had been damaged by the storm and fought in a heavy sea, rolling so far that the guns were sometimes under water. Wasp's men fired as their side rolled down, into Frolic's hull, while the British fired on the up-roll into Wasp's rigging. After about forty minutes Wasp ran aboard Frolic and her boarders found the brig's deck covered with dead and wounded, with only the wounded Captain Whinyates and a few others still standing. But both ships were crippled, and a few hours later the 74-gun Poictiers came up and took them both.