USS Perseus

Last updated January 04, 2022

USS Perseus is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy. Perseus is the mythological character and also the name of constellation.

USS Perseus (WPC-114) was built for the U.S. Coast Guard by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, and was delivered 23 April 1932.
USS Perseus (AF-64) was laid down as Union Victory (MCV hull 683) by the Oregon Shipbuilding Corp., Portland, Oregon, 30 March 1945. She was later assigned as USNS Perseus (T-AF-64).

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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