USS Carter Hall

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USS Carter Hall may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy:

USS Carter Hall (LSD-3) was an Ashland-class dock landing ship, launched in 1943 and struck in 1969
USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) is a Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship, launched in 1993 and currently in active service

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Oak Hill may refer to:

USS Carter Hall (LSD-3) was an Ashland-class dock landing ship in the United States Navy, named in honor of Carter Hall, the Millwood, Virginia estate of Lt. Col. Nathaniel Burwell (1750–1814).

Three ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Portland, named in honor of the cities of Portland, Maine, and Portland, Oregon.

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Germantown, after Germantown, Pennsylvania, the scene of an American Revolutionary War battle.

USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) is a Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She is the second U.S. Navy ship to be named for Carter Hall, an estate near Winchester, Virginia, built in the 1790s.

USS Pearl Harbor is a Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was named for Pearl Harbor, where World War II began for the United States.

USS Monticello may refer to:

USS Hermitage may refer to:

USS Ashland may refer to:

The name USS Fort Snelling has been assigned to two dock landing ships of the United States Navy, in honor of Fort Snelling, a fort at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, for many years the northernmost military post in the land of the Sioux and Chippewa.

The Harpers Ferry class of the United States Navy is a class of dock landing ships completed in the early 1990s. Modified from the Whidbey Island class, the design sacrifices landing craft capacity for more cargo space, making it closer to an amphibious transport dock type, but was not designated as such. Externally, the two classes can be distinguished by the positions of weapons: The Harpers Ferry class has the Phalanx CIWS mounted forward, and the RAM launcher on top of the bridge, while the Whidbey Island has the opposite arrangement.

Tortuga is the Spanish word for a turtle or tortoise. It may also refer to:

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Comstock after the Comstock Lode in Nevada. Discovered in 1859, it was one of the richest deposits of precious metals known in the world.

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Gunston Hall, in honor of Gunston Hall.

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Oak Hill, in honor of Oak Hill plantation, the estate of James Monroe, the fifth U.S. President, in Loudoun County, Virginia.

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Rushmore, in honor of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

USS Casa Grande (LSD-13) was a Casa Grande-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy, named in honor of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument near Coolidge, Arizona.

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