USS Jamestown

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USS Jamestown may refer to any one of a number of United States Navy vessels.

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USS Jamestown (1844), was a sloop that served from 1844 until 1892
USS Jamestown (PG-55), was a patrol gunboat that served from 1941 until 1946
USS Jamestown (AGTR-3), was originally a Liberty ship (AG-166) completed in 1945, converted and renamed in 1963, and then redesignated in 1964 to AGTR-3. Scrapped in 1970.

The first USS Jamestown was a sloop-of-war in the United States Navy during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War.

In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. The rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above; thus, the term sloop-of-war encompassed all the unrated combat vessels, including the very small gun-brigs and cutters. In technical terms, even the more specialised bomb vessels and fireships were classed as sloops-of-war, and in practice these were employed in the sloop role when not carrying out their specialized functions.

USS Jamestown (PG-55) was a patrol gunboat and after 13 January 1943 a Jamestown-class motor torpedo boat tender acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. Her task in her final classification was to provide a "home base" for torpedo boats in remote parts of the ocean during the war, and to provide them with necessary services, such as fuel, food, and repairs.

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