High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Frolic was a 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built by Boole, of Bridport and was launched on 9 February 1806. In 1812 the American sloop USS Wasp captured her after a fierce fight, but later that day the British recaptured Frolic and captured Wasp. Frolic was broken up in 1813.