USS Bellatrix

Last updated November 11, 2021

USS Bellatrix may refer to the following ships operated by the United States:

USS Bellatrix (AKA-3), an attack cargo ship commissioned in 1942; transferred to Peru in 1963; scrapped in 1991.
USS Bellatrix (AF-62), commissioned 18 November 1961 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington.
SS Bellatrix (T-AKR-288), a ship of the Military Sealift Command, delivered in 1973.

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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .The entry can be found here.
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register , which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.The entry can be found here.

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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