See also
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.
USS California may refer to:
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 Virginia may refer to:
Four United States Navy ships have been named USS Harvard, after Harvard University:
Three ships of the United States Navy have been named USS San Juan. The first retained her mercantile name when acquired by the Navy; the latter two were named for the capital of Puerto Rico.
Four ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Helena, after the city of Helena, Montana.
Virginia is a state in the United States of America.
The first USS Ortolan(AM-45/ASR-5) was a Lapwing-class minesweeper in the United States Navy. She was later converted to a submarine rescue ship. She was named after the ortolan, a European bunting.
USS California (SP-647) – later known as USS SP-647 – was originally a motorboat used by the San Francisco Bar Pilots Association as a pilot boat. She was leased by the Navy, and outfitted as an armed section patrol craft, assigned to patrol and protect San Francisco harbor. At war's end, she was returned to the pilot's association.
USS Inca (SP-1212) was a 62-foot-long motorboat leased by the U.S. Navy during World War I. She was outfitted as a patrol craft, but was additionally assigned other duties, such as rescue craft, seaplane tender, and dispatch boat. She served in the Boston, Massachusetts, and Hampton Roads, Virginia, waterways until war’s end when she was returned to her owner.
USS Margaret is a name used more than once by the US Navy:
USS Lynx II (SP-730), later USS SP-730, was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel and harbor dispatch boat from 1917 to 1919.
USS Onward II (SP-728), later USS SP-728, was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1918.
The first USS Vision (SP-744), later USS SP-744, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
USS Arvilla (SP-752) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
USS Normannia (SP-756) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.
USS Rosa (SP-757) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.
USS Ellington (SP-776) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
USS San Toy II (SP-996) was a United States Navy ship's tender and ferry in commission from 1917 to 1919.
USS Caroline (SP-1105) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.