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Arizona has been the name of three ships of the United States Navy and will be the name of a future submarine.
Four ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Missouri in honor of the state of Missouri:
USS Lexington may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy:
USS Liberty may refer to:
At least seven United States Navy ships have been named Alabama, after the southern state of Alabama.
Four ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Alaska in honor of the territory acquired by the United States from Russia in 1867 which later became the state of Alaska:
USS Yorktown may refer to:
Four ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Indianapolis:
USS Franklin may refer to:
Three ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Antietam, after the Battle of Antietam.
USS Morris may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy:
USS Percival may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy:
USS Bronstein (FF-1037) was the lead ship of her class in the United States Navy. She was named in honor of Assistant Surgeon Ben Richard Bronstein, who was killed in action on 28 February 1942 when USS Jacob Jones (DD-130) was sunk by a German U-boat off Cape May, New Jersey.
USS McCloy (FF-1038) was the second and final Bronstein-class frigate. Commissioned as a destroyer escort, McCloy was redesignated as frigate on 30 June 1975. Decommissioned on 14 December 1990, and stricken from the Navy list on 4 October 1991, McCloy was transferred to Mexico on 12 November 1993, where she was recommissioned as Nicolas Bravo. Named for Lt. Comdr. John C. McCloy, recipient of two Medals of Honor.
The Bronstein-class frigates were United States Navy warships, originally laid down as ocean escorts, but were all redesignated as frigates on 30 June 1975 in the United States Navy 1975 ship reclassification and their hull designation changed from DE to FF.
USS Bronstein (DE-189) was a Cannon-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1945. In 1952, she was sold to Uruguay, where she served as ROU Artigas (DE-2) until being decommissioned and scrapped in 1988.
USS Theodore Roosevelt has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:
ARM Hermenegildo Galeana may refer to one of the following Mexican Navy ships:
ARM Mariano Matamoros may refer to one of the following patrol vessels of the Mexican Navy:
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- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .The entry can be found here.
