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USS Merrimack, or variant spelling USS Merrimac, may be any one of several ships commissioned in the United States Navy and named after the Merrimack River.
USS Grampus may refer to:
At least seven United States Navy ships have been named Alabama, after the southern state of Alabama.
USS Arkansas may refer to one of these ships of the United States Navy named in honor of the 25th state.
Five ships of the United States Navy have been or will be named USS Pittsburgh in honor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:
The third USS Philadelphia was the flagship of Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee when he commanded the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the American Civil War.
Conestoga originally referred to the Conestoga people, an English name for the Susquehannock people of Pennsylvania.
Three ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Marblehead after the port of Marblehead, Massachusetts.
Three ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Cayuga for one of the six Iroquois tribes.
The second USS Conestoga (SP-1128/AT-54) was an ocean-going tug in the United States Navy. Commissioned in 1917, it disappeared in the Pacific Ocean in 1921. The fate of the vessel was a mystery until its wreck was positively identified in 2016.
CSS Jackson was a gunboat of the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.
USS Darlington was a captured Confederate steamer acquired by the Union Navy from the prize court during the American Civil War. She was put into service by the Union Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
USS Clifton may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy:
USS Stettin was a 600-ton iron screw steamship, was built at Sunderland, England, in 1861 and later served as a gunboat in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.
USS Mignonette (1861) was a steam operated tugboat acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
USS Calhoun was a captured Confederate steamer and blockade runner acquired by the Union Navy from the prize court during the American Civil War.
USS Rattler (1862) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
USS Sallie Wood (1860) was a 256-ton steamer captured by the Union Navy during the early years of the American Civil War.
USS Sarah and Caroline (1861) was a schooner captured by the Union Navy during the beginning of the American Civil War.
USS Conestoga was originally a civilian side-wheel towboat built at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in 1859. She was acquired by the U.S. Army in June 1861 and converted to a 572-ton "timberclad" river gunboat for use by the Western Gunboat Flotilla, with officers provided by the navy.
References
- ↑ "USS Conestoga wreckage found off California after 95 years". BBC News Online . 23 March 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ↑ "Mystery solved: Navy tug, lost for nearly a century, found outside Golden Gate". 23 March 2016.
