USS America

USS America may refer to:

  • USS America (1782), a 74-gun ship of the line, laid down in 1777, but not launched until 1782 and thereupon given to France
  • USS America (IX-41), a 19th-century racing yacht converted for United States naval service during the American Civil War
  • USS America (ID-3006), originally the German ocean liner SS Amerika, seized by the United States during World War I and used as a troop transport
  • USS America (CV-66), a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier commissioned in 1965 and decommissioned in 1996. Currently the only supercarrier to be expended as a target.
  • USS America (LHA-6), an America-class amphibious assault ship awarded for construction in June 2007 and commissioned in 2014

See also

  • USS American (1861), part of the Civil War "Stone Fleet" deliberately sunk to block the harbor in Charleston, South Carolina; sometimes erroneously referred to as USS America
  • America, an ocean liner launched in 1939
  • SS America, various merchantmen
  • America was the name of the Command Module on Apollo 17
  • French ship America, two ships of the French Navy
  • HMS America, various ships of the Royal Navy
  • America-class steamship
    • RMS America
  • America-class ship of the line
  • USS United States
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