USS Fort Snelling

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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.

PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .The entries can be found here and here.