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Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name Cyclops, for the Cyclopes of Greek mythology, giants with only one eye.
Eight ships of the United States Navy and Revenue-Marine have been named USS Massachusetts, after the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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 America may refer to:
Three ships of the United States Navy have been named Cumberland, after the Cumberland River.
Four ships of the United States Navy have been named Chattanooga, after the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
USS Neptune has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:
Four ships of the United States Navy have been named Ajax, after Ajax, a Greek hero during the Trojan War.
USS Contoocook was a screw sloop-of-war built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She is named after a river and village in New Hampshire. She was launched 3 December 1864 at Portsmouth Navy Yard and commissioned 14 March 1868, commanded by Captain George Balch.
Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Auburn. The first was named for the town of Auburn, Pennsylvania, situated on a tributary of the Little Schuylkill River, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, northwest of Chester, Pennsylvania, where the ship was built. The second Auburn (AGC-10) was named for Mount Auburn, Massachusetts, just northwest of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The name itself was first found in Oliver Goldsmith's epic poem, "The Deserted Village" (1770).
The first USS Theodore Roosevelt (ID-1478) was a United States Navy troop transport in commission from 1918 to 1919.
Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Bridge, in honor of Commodore Horatio Bridge.
The USS Araner (IX-226) was laid down as the liberty ship Juan de Fuca under a Maritime Commission contract on 15 November 1942 at Vancouver, Washington, by the Oregon Shipbuilding Company and launched on 27 December 1942. The ship was delivered to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) on 11 January 1943 and immediately placed under a standard WSA operating agreement with Weyerhauser Steamship Company.
Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Madawaska, after Madawaska, Maine, a town in northern Aroostook County, on the Canadian border:
Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Circe, after Circe, the sorceress in Homer's Odyssey.
Three ships of the United States Navy have been named Atlas, after Atlas, whose name means bearer or endurer.
Three ships of the United States Navy have been named Callao.
USS Margaret (ID-2510) – shortly thereafter known as USS Chatham (ID-2510) -- was a cargo ship acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War I. She was used to carry cargo to Allied troops in Europe until the war's end when she was returned to the U.S. Shipping Board for disposition.
The first USS Moosehead (ID-2047), later the fourth USS Porpoise (YFB-2047), was a steamer that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1930.
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- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .The entry can be found here.
