USS Fulton

Last updated October 30, 2021

Five ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Fulton, in honor of Robert Fulton.

United States floating battery Demologos, later Fulton, a catamaran steam frigate, launched in 1815, delivered to the Navy in 1816 and used as a receiving ship until she exploded in 1829
USS Fulton (1837), a sidewheel steamer launched in 1837, captured by the Confederates in 1861 and destroyed in the evacuation of Pensacola in 1862
USS Fulton (AS-1), a submarine tender launched in 1914, reclassified as a gunboat (PG-49) in 1930, and decommissioned in 1934
USS Fulton (SP-247), a tugboat, converted into a patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919
USS Fulton (AS-11), a Fulton-class submarine tender, launched in 1940 and struck in 1991

See also

USS Dick Fulton (1862), a sternwheel steamer in service as a tender with the United States Army′s Ram Fleet from 1862 to ca. 1864
Fulton (ship), for other ships of this name

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