The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) use a hull classification symbol to identify their ships by type and by individual ship within a type. The system is analogous to the pennant number system that the Royal Navy and other European and Commonwealth navies use.
USS Standish was an iron-hulled screw tug of the United States Navy.
USS Advance (YT-28) was an Advance-class tugboat acquired by the United States Navy for the task of patrolling American coastal waters during the First World War.
USS Brilliant may refer to:
USS Polaris, originally called the America, was an 1864-screw steamer procured by the Union Navy as USS Periwinkle during the final months of the American Civil War. She served the Union Navy's struggle against the Confederate States as a gunboat.
The fourth USS Relief (ID-2170) was a salvage tug that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919.
The second USS Wando, later YT-17, later YT-123, later YTB-123, was a United States Navy tug in commission from 1917 to 1946.
The first USS Wandank (AT-26), originally Fleet Tug No. 26, later ATO-26, was a United States Navy fleet tug in commission from 1920 to 1922 and again from 1922 to 1946.
USS Radiant (ID-1324) was the proposed designation for a tugboat that never served in the United States Navy.
USS Caspian (ID-1380) was the proposed name and hull classification for a tug that never actually served in the United States Navy.
The first USS Sappho (ID-1427) was a United States Navy ferry transport in commission from 1918 to 1919.
USS Virginian was a United States Navy tug in commission from 1918 to 1919.
The first USS Tillamook, later AT-16, later YT-122, later YTM-122, was a United States Navy tug in service from 1914 to 1947.
The second USS Vigilant (YT-25) was a United States Navy tug commissioned in 1898 and stricken in 1927. The vessel was constructed in 1881 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as George W. Pride and began service in San Francisco, California the same year. With the onset of the Spanish–American War, the tugboat was acquired by the United States Navy in April 1898 and remained in service until 1927.
The first USS Fearless (SP-724) was a United States Navy tug in commission from 1917 to 1921.
USS L. A. Dempsey (SP-1231) was a United States Navy armed tug that was in commission as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.
USS Western Comet (ID-3569) was a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919.
Modoc was a steam tug, built in 1890 as the commercial tug Enterprise, in service with the United States Navy from 1898 to 1947. The tug had been assigned the hull number YT‑16 in 1920. When the name Modoc was cancelled 5 October 1942 the tug became the unnamed YT‑16 until reclassified in 1944 to become YTL-16. The tug served for 49 years and in both World War I and World War II before being transferred to the Maritime Commission in early 1947 for disposal.
USS Piscataqua, later USS Piscataqua (AT-49), the third United States Navy ship of the name, was an armed tug in commission from 1898 to 1922. Early in her naval career, she saw service in the Spanish–American War, and she operated in the Philippines during and after the Philippine–American War.
USS Iona was a wooden-hulled, harbor tug of the United States Navy that served during World War II.
