USS Canberra

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Two ships of the United States Navy have been assigned the name USS Canberra, in honor of HMAS Canberra (D33), and the City of Canberra, Australia's capital.

USS Canberra (CA-70) was a Baltimore-class cruiser, launched in 1943 and struck in 1978.
USS Canberra (LCS-30), an Independence-class littoral combat ship, commissioned in 2021

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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