USS Wave (1836)

Career (United States)
Name:	USS Wave
Namesake:	Previous name retained.
Builder:	Brown and Bell, New York, New York
Completed:	1832
Acquired:	1836
Fate:	Probably sold in 1846
Notes:	In service as private yacht 1832-1836
General characteristics
Type:	Schooner
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Schooner-rigged
Armament:	Reported both as 1 gun or "2 small guns"

For other ships of the same name, see USS Wave.

The first USS Wave was a schooner in commission in the United States Navy from 1836 until probably 1846.

Wave was a schooner-rigged yacht designed along pilot boat lines by John C. Stevens and built for him in 1832 at New York City by Brown and Bell. The U.S. Navy purchased her in 1836 for use in the Second Seminole War. In that campaign, she cruised the Florida coast in support of United States Army operations until 1840.

After 1840, Wave served as a surveying vessel along the United States East Coast under the command of Lieutenant J. R. Goldsborough.

In his History of the American Sailing Navy, Howard I. Chapelle suggests that she was sold in 1846. However, no evidence has been found to corroborate or refute that assertion. Chapelle also states that as of the time of his book's publication in 1949, a model of Wave resided in the New York Yacht Club's model room.

References

• This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• Chapelle, Howard I. The History of the American Sailing Navy: The Ships and Their Development. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1949. ISBN 1-56852-222-3.