USS Arctic

Last updated December 31, 2021

USS Arctic is the name of several ships of the U.S. Navy:

USS Arctic (1855), a screw steamer built by the Philadelphia Navy Yard
Ice Boat No. 3 , an 1873 municipal icebreaker briefly commissioned as the patrol vessel USS Arctic in the Spanish–American War
USS Arctic (SP-1158), a 1913 tugboat used as a convoy escort in World War I
USS Arctic (AF-7), an Arctic-class stores ship which saw service in World War II
USNS Arctic (T-AOE-8), a fast combat support ship, commissioned as USS Arctic from 1995 to 2002

This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.

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