USS Neptune

Last updated October 23, 2021

USS Neptune has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:

USS Clyde (1863), a 294-ton side-wheel steam gunboat, was briefly named Neptune when first commissioned
USS Neptune (1863), a 1,244-ton screw steamship, served during the American Civil War
USS Manhattan (1863), a monitor in commission from 1864 to 1877, briefly named USS Neptune during 1869
USS Neptune (AC-8), was a collier that carried the first United States troops to Europe in World War I
USNS Neptune, was a Neptune-class cable repair ship, acquired by the US Navy in 1953 as USS Neptune (ARC-2) and scrapped in 2005

In fiction

A fictitious U.S. Navy nuclear submarine named USS Neptune was the setting of the 1978 movie Gray Lady Down

This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.

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