Transferred toUnited States Shipping Boardon 5 May 1919 for simultaneous return to owner

USS Key West (PF-17)

USS Kearsarge (CVA-33)

United States

USS Kestrel

* light
* full

USS Kern

USS Kermoor (1907)

USS Katherine K.

*
*4 water-tube boilers

USS Khedive

Louisiana

*1 × 5"/38 caliber gun mounts
*4 × 3"/50 caliber gun mounts
*8 × 40 mm AA gun mounts
*8 × 20 mm AA gun mounts
*2 × depth charge projectors

maximum

USS Kennedy (CV 67)

USS Katherine (SP-715), later USS SP-715, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.Katherine was built as a civilian motorboat of the same name in 1907 by J. T. Sharpley at Greenbackville, Virginia. In 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, the Virginia Fish and Oyster Commission, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I.

USS Kennison

USS Kermoor was a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919.

USS Katydid (SP-95) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.Katydid was built as a civilian motorboat in 1912 by William Hoff at New Rochelle, New York. Anticipating the entry of the United States into World War I the following month, the U.S. Navy purchased her on 27 March 1917 from her owner, Arnold G. Dana, for use as a patrol boat. Assigned to the 3rd Naval District on 4 April 1917, she was commissioned on 10 May 1917 as USS Katydid (SP-95) with Chief Boatswain's Mate Asher A. Howell in command.In 1917, Katydid operated in New York Harbor and nearby waters serving as launch to the training ship USS Wasp and troop transport USS President Grant (ID-3014). Subsequently, she deployed to France.Katydid was laid up on 9 December 1919. She was transferred to the United States Department of War on 18 February 1920 for service with the United States Army Ordnance Department at Neville Island, Pennsylvania.

*VMM-266 REIN approx. 22 × Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey
*6 × AV-8B Harrier II V/STOL attack jets
*6 × SH-60F/HH-60H ASW helicopters

USS Kerkenna was a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919.

USS Kathrich II (SP-148)

USS Independence

* surfaced
* submerged

USS Key West (PF-17), a Tacoma-class frigate, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Key West, Florida.The second Key West, PF-17, originally classified PG-125, was launched 29 December 1943 by the American Ship Building Company in Lorain, Ohio, sponsored by Mrs. Vernon Lowe; sister of Lieutenant Harold Felton, the first resident of Key West reported missing in World War II; and commissioned at Houston, Texas, on 7 November 1944, with Lieutenant Commander B.

*Original:
*1 × 11-in Dahlgren smoothbore
*2 × 24-pdr smoothbore
*2 × 20-pdr Parrott rifle

USS King

In excess of

USS Kasota

USS Key West

scrapped

*Vice Admiral James L. Kauffman
*Rear Admiral Draper L. Kauffman

USS Kenwood

* Belt:
* Bulkheads:
* Barbettes:
* Turrets:
* Decks:

USS Kendrick (DD-612) was a Benson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Charles S. Kendrick.Kendrick was launched 2 April 1942 by Bethlehem Steel Corporation, San Pedro, California; sponsored by Mrs. J. Hanson Delvac, a great-granddaughter of Acting Master Charles S. Kendrick; and commissioned 12 September 1942, Lieutenant Commander C. T. Caufield in command.

Proud—Trustworthy—Bold

New Jersey Shipbuilding Company, Barber, New Jersey

USS Kilauea

USS Kent (AP-28)

USS Key West (PF-17), a Tacoma-class frigate, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Key West, Florida.The second Key West, PF-17, originally classified PG-125, was launched 29 December 1943 by the American Ship Building Company in Lorain, Ohio, sponsored by Mrs. Vernon Lowe; sister of Lieutenant Harold Felton, the first resident of Key West reported missing in World War II; and commissioned at Houston, Texas, on 7 November 1944, with Lieutenant Commander B. Papanek, USCGR, in command.

J. T. Sharpley, Greenbackville, Virginia

USS Kennedy (DD-306) was a Clemson-class destroyer built for the United States Navy during World War I.

USS Kent Island

Kinky-D

*26,500 shp ;
*geared turbines,
*2 screws

USS Kinkaid

USS Killdeer (AMc-21) was a unique coastal minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.Killdeer was originally built as a purse seiner in 1930 by Al Larson, Los Angeles, California, with the name of Vindicator; rebuilt in 1940 by Harbor Boat Works, San Pedro, California; acquired by the Navy from her owner, Mr. Martin Trutanich, 8 November 1940; and placed in service the same day as Killdeer.

USS Kentucky (BB-66) was an uncompleted battleship originally intended to be the sixth and final member of the Iowa class constructed for the United States Navy. At the time of her construction she was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the U.S. state of Kentucky. Hull BB-66 was originally to be the second ship of the Montana class. However, the U.S.

USS Keith

yes

USS Keresaspa

USS Kent Island (AG-78)

USS Kingfisher

Service God, Country, Fleet

one .50 cal. machine guns

USS Kestrel (AMC-5), was built in 1938 as Chanco by the Salisbury Yacht Co., Salisbury, Maryland. The yacht was acquired by the United States Navy on 1 October 1940, converted to a coastal minesweeper, and commissioned as USS Kestrel (AMc-5) on 21 January 1941.

date unknown

USS Keresan (ID-1806) was a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919.

*2 × geared steam turbines,
*2 × boilers,
*2 × shafts

USS Kinkaid (DD-965), named for Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid USN (1888–1972), was a Spruance-class destroyer built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula, Mississippi. Launched in 1974, she was decommissioned in 2003 and sunk in 2004. She was the third "Spru-can" to be built.

USS Kingfish (SS-234), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the kingfish, a fish found along the Atlantic coast of the United States.Kingfish (SS-234) was laid down on 29 August 1941 by Portsmouth Navy Yard. She was launched 2 March 1942 (sponsored by Mrs. Harry A. Stuart, wife of Rear Admiral Harry A. Stuart), and commissioned 20 May 1942, with Lieutenant Commander Vernon L. "Rebel" Lowrance (Class of 1930) in command.

USS Kauffman (FFG-59), an Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Vice Admiral James L. Kauffman (1887–1963) and his son, Rear Admiral Draper L. Kauffman (1911–1979), both experts in sub-surface naval missions.Kauffman was laid down on 8 April 1985 by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; launched on 29 March 1986; sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth Kauffman Bush, the daughter of Vice Admiral James L. Kauffman and sister of Rear Admiral Draper L.

Kasota was laid down as YT-222; launched 20 January 1944 by the Elizabeth City Shipyard, Elizabeth City, N.C.; sponsored by Miss Norma Crawley; and reclassified YTB-222 15 May 1944 prior to being placed in service 4 September for duty in the 5th Naval District. Kasota operated out of Norfolk as a district and service craft until 1 May 1961 when she was struck from the Navy List.

USS Kearsarge (BB-5), the lead ship of her class of pre-dreadnought battleships, was a United States Navy ship, named after the sloop-of-war Kearsarge. Her keel was laid down by the Newport News Shipbuilding Company of Virginia, on 30 June 1896.

Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 11 July 1947

USS Keosauqua

USS Kestrel (AMCU-26) was an LCI(L)-351-class large landing craft of the United States Navy, later converted to an AMCU-7-class Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator).The ship was laid down on 7 September 1944 by the New Jersey Shipbuilding Company, of Barber, New Jersey, launched on 6 October 1944, and commissioned as USS LSI(L)-874 on 13 October 1944.

USS Key (DE-348)

USS Kathrich II

USS Khe Sanh

USS Kete (SS-369)

See note

Key

Miss Norma Crawley

USS Kearsarge (sloop)

Transferred toUnited States Coast Guard4 September 1919

*2 × 6-pounder guns
*1 × machine gun

Levingston Shipbuilding Co., Orange, Texas

USS Kermanshah (ID-1473) was a cargo ship that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919.Kermanshah was built as the commercial cargo ship SS Himalaia in 1910 at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, by the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company for an Austro-Hungarian shipping firm. In August 1914, when the outbreak of World War I made the seas unsafe for Central Powers' shipping, Himalaia took refuge at New York City in the neutral United States and was laid up there.

USS Kilty (DD–137) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was the first ship named for Admiral Augustus Kilty.Kilty was launched 25 April 1918 by the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California; sponsored by Miss Elizabeth Harrison Shapley; and commissioned 17 December 1918, Lieutenant Commander Timothy Jerome Keleher in command.

USS Kenton (APA-122) was a Haskell-class attack transport of the US Navy. She was built and used during World War II. She was of the VC2-S-AP5 Victory ship design type. She was named for Kenton County, Kentucky.

*1 × 4-inch gun
*1 × 6-pounder gun

USS Kestrel (AMc-5)

May 1917

*geared steam turbine
*single screw

USS Kenton (APA-122)

Belle Isle-class miscellaneous auxiliary

as Vindicator

USS Keosanqua (ATA-198) was a Maricopa-class auxiliary fleet tug of the United States Navy. The ship was authorized as Rescue Ocean Tug ATR-125, and redesignated Auxiliary Fleet Tug USS ATA-198 on 15 May 1944. The ship was laid down at Levingston Shipbuilding Co., Orange, Texas, launched on 17 January 1945, and commissioned on 19 March 1945, Lieutenant J. L. Bean in command. She was named Keosanqua (ATA-198) on 16 July 1948.

Kyong Puk

USS Killen

USS Kaskaskia

USS Kineo (AT-39)

USS Keokuk (AKN-4)

Kauffman

Transferred toUnited States Shipping Boardfor simultaneous return to owner

*1 battle star
*7 campaign stars

USS Kearsarge (CV-12)

USS Keppler (DE-375)

USS Kajeruna

USS Kidder

USS Keith (DE-241) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy named in honor of Ellis Judson Keith, Jr., who was killed in action on 11 June 1942, Seaman Keith was posthumously awarded the Air Medal.Keith was originally laid down as Scott but renamed Keith on 8 December 1942, and was launched 21 December 1942 by the Brown Shipbuilding Company in Houston, Texas. Keith was sponsored by Mrs. Ellis J.

In commercial service as SS Franconia 1903-1918, as SS Keresaspa 1919-1922, and as SS Pannonia from 1922

Museum ship in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

USS Key (DE-348) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. Her primary purpose was to escort and protect ships in convoy. Her other tasks included patrol and radar picket. Post-war, she returned home proudly with one battle star to her credit.Key was launched on 12 February 1944 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Texas, sponsored by Mrs. Ira F. Key, mother of Lt. Key; and commissioned on 5 June 1944, Lt. Comdr. F. D. Buckley in command.

JL Thompson and Sons, Ltd, Sunderland, England

USS Kensington (1862)

Destroyed in tests

Special K

Scrapped, 1982

None

USS Kenmore (AP-62)

USS Katherine (SP-715), later USS SP-715, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.Katherine was built as a civilian motorboat of the same name in 1907 by J. T. Sharpley at Greenbackville, Virginia. In 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, the Virginia Fish and Oyster Commission, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Katherine (SP-715) on 26 April 1917, although the Navy did not actually take possession of her until 18 May 1917, when Chief Master-at-Arms C. C. Jones took command of her at Norfolk, Virginia.Assigned to the 5th Naval District and based at Greenbackville, Katherine operated as a shore and section patrol boat in the southern Chesapeake Bay and in Virginia's Atlantic coastal waters in and around Chincoteague Bay until just under three weeks before the end of World War I. She was renamed USS SP-715 sometime in 1918.SP-715 was decommissioned on 22 October 1918 and returned to the Virginia Fish and Oyster Commission the same day.

USS Kate (1864)

USS Kerowlee was a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919.Kerowlee was built in 1901 at South Shields, England, by J. Readhead and Sons as a commercial cargo ship. She operated under the name SS Campania during at least part of her commercial service. She was named SS Kerowlee and the property of Kerr Navigation Company of New York City by the time the United States Army took control of her at Le Havre, France, on 1 December 1917 for World War I service. The U.S. Navy acquired her from the Army at Cardiff, Wales, on 17 October 1918 and commissioned her the same day as USS Kerowlee with Lieutenant Commander W. L. Strong, USNRF, in command. Unlike most commercial ships commissioned into U.S. Navy service during World War I, Kermoor never received a naval registry Identification Number (Id. No.).Departing Cardiff on 3 November 1918 for Brest, France, Kerowlee operated between ports on the English Channel ports in England and France until 11 April 1919, carrying coal and military supplies.Kerowlee was assigned to the United States Food Administration on 11 April 1919 to carry foodstuffs between St. Nazaire, France, and Danzig, Germany.Transferred to a United States Shipping Board account on 1 June 1919, Kerowlee departed St. Nazaire on 8 July 1919 with a load of U.S. Army cargo for the United States. Arriving at Norfolk, Virginia, on 25 July 1919, she was decommissioned on 11 August 1919 and transferred to the U.S. Shipping Board the same day for simultaneous return to the Kerr Navigation Company.The ship returned to commercial service as SS Kerowlee. She was wrecked in the Weser in Germany in late March 1920 and broke in two on 25 March 1920.

Kennebec class oiler

*2 × Sea Sparrow missile systems
*2 × Rolling Airframe Missile systems
*3 × Phalanx CIWS
*8 × .50 BMG machine guns

full load

*"Toujours en Vedette"
*

Diesel-electric engines, single screw

USS Kerstin

USS Keosanqua (AT-38)

USS Kathrich II (SP-148) was a motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.Kathrich II was built as a civilian motorboat in 1913 by E. S. Thibault at Jacksonville, Florida. The U.S. Navy acquired her in 1917 from her owner, Richard B. Marks of Jacksonville, for use as a patrol vessel during World War I. She was enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve on 20 April 1917; the Navy took control of her on 8 May 1917 and commissioned her on 9 May 1917 at Charleston, South Carolina, as USS Kathrich II (SP-148) with Boatswain's Mate Second Class Robert Fisher, USNRF, in command.Kathrich II was assigned to the 6th Naval District, where she operated as a section patrol boat in the harbor at Savannah, Georgia, boarding and inspecting ships and sealing radios.On 5 February 1919, Kathrich II was assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS) for duty as a dispatch and radio inspection ship in Savannah harbor. Decommissioned on 6 February 1919, she remained with NOTS until 4 September 1919, when she was turned over to the United States Coast Guard for use in communications work.

USS Keokuk

USS Kennebec (AO-36) was originally the SS Corsicana, a Kennebec class T2 tanker that was built by Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard in Sparrows Point, Maryland. It was delivered to Socony-Vacuum Oil Company (later Mobil Oil) on 8 August 1941. It was purchased by the United States Navy on 13 January 1942 and renamed Kennebec.

USS Kete (SS-369), a Balao-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the kete, the foureye butterflyfish Chaetodon capistratus. Her keel was laid down by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company of Manitowoc, Wisconsin. She was launched on 9 April 1944 sponsored by Mrs. E. S. Hutchinson, and commissioned on 31 July with Commander R. L. Rutter in command.Departing Manitowoc 20 August, Kete sailed via New Orleans, Louisiana, to Panama. Arriving 5 September, she trained with SubRon 3 until 28 September; then the new submarine sailed to Pearl Harbor, arriving 15 October, and steamed westward on 31 October for her first war patrol.She topped off her fuel at Midway Island on 4 November and reached her assigned patrol area in the East China Sea on 15 November in company with Sea Lion (SS-315). Harassed by heavy weather and nonfunctioning bow planes, she sailed 19 November for Saipan, where she arrived 24 November. She departed Saipan with Kraken (SS-370) on 24 December and resumed her war patrol north of Okinawa four days later. Despite prolonged periods of heavy weather, she made lifeguard patrols off the central Ryukyu Islands from 1 January to 27 January 1945 searching for American fliers downed during air strikes on the Ryukyu Islands. After gathering vital weather data, she sailed to Guam and arrived 30 January for refit.With Lieutenant Commander Edward Ackerman in command, Kete cleared Guam on 1 March for her second war patrol. Assigned to waters surrounding the Nansei Shoto Chain, she resumed lifeguard duty and gathered weather data for the forthcoming invasion of Okinawa. While patrolling west of Tokara Retto on the night of 9 March and 10 March, she surprised an enemy convoy and torpedoed three marus totaling 6881 tons. During the night of 14 March, she attacked a cable-laying ship.With only three torpedoes remaining, she was ordered to depart the area 20 March, refuel at Midway Island, and proceed to Pearl Harbor for refit. Kete acknowledged these orders 19 March; and, while steaming eastward the following day, she sent in a weather report from a position south of Colnett Strait. She was neither seen nor heard from again. She was scheduled to arrive Midway by 31 March; when repeated attempts to contact her by radio failed she was reported as presumed lost on 16 April.Circumstances surrounding her loss remain a mystery. The cause could have been an operational malfunction, a mine explosion, or enemy action.Some Western sources credit the medium-size Japanese submarine RO-41 (type Kaichū) with the sinking of Kete but the only undisputable fact is that this submarine crossed the same area on the day Kete sent a weather report there. RO-41 was possibly sunk on 23 March 1945, 3 days after a supposed kill. It is very unlikely the Japanese captain (Lt Honda) would not report such an attack. It is even emphasized by the last radio contact with RO-41, happening on 22 March 1945 and mentioning just "sighting an enemy destroyer".Kete received one battle star for World War II service.

Mrs. Nan Hatch

USS Keresan

"Steadfast and True"

USS Kenneth D. Bailey (DD 713)

Previous name retained

Canceled prior to launch

Reciprocating steam engine, single shaft

USS Kajeruna (SP-389)

USS Katherine K. (SP-220) was a United States Navy patrol vessel and tug in commission from 1917 to 1919.

South Korea

Operated as civilian motorboat Katherine 1907-1917 and from 1918

DD965

BBG-1 from BB-66

Scrapped 1973

USS Kephart (DE-207/APD-61) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort in the United States Navy. She was named in honor of naval aviator Lieutenant William P. Kephart (1915–1942).

as Kate B. Porter

as Rescue Ocean Tug, ATR-125

*In commercial service as Morawitz 1907–17, as Kermoor 1917–18 and 1919–21, as Morawitz 1921–27, and as Purley Oaks 1927–36
*Scrapped 1936

Operated as private motorboat Katydid 1912-1917

USS Kensington

USS Kearsarge

USS Kennebec

USS Kephart

USS Kenneth D. Bailey

internal combustion engine repair ship

USS Kimberly (DD-80)

Varied

Sold toIran, 13 January 1975, to be broken up for spare parts

USS Kermanshah (ID-1473)

USS Keppler (DD-763)

USS Kerkenna

Operated as private yacht Hauoli, Seminole, and Kajeruna 1902/1903-1917 and Kajeruna from 1919

not known

USS Kenneth D. Bailey (DD713)

USS Kennison (DD-138)

*1 × 5"/38 caliber gun
*3 × 3"/50 caliber guns
*4 × 40 mm guns
*12 × 20 mm guns

*USS Katherine
*USS SP-715

Mrs. Isaac C. Kidd

USS Kestrel (AMCU-26)

Scrapped

USS King County

Transferred to the Republic of Korea, 1 February 1962

USS Keppler (DDE-765)

The third USS Keppler (DD/DDE-765) was a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. She was named for Boatswain's Mate First Class Reinhardt J. Keppler (1918–1942), who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism" during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.Keppler was launched on 24 June 1946 by Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Shipbuilding Division, San Francisco, California sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth L. Keppler, widow of BM1c Keppler; and commissioned on 23 May 1947, Commander Peter M. Gaviglio in command.

USS Kerkenna (1900)

reciprocating steam engine, single shaft, 1,950hp

*Surfaced:
*Submerged: In excess of

Commercial motor launch

USS Kaweah (AO-15)

USS Kendall C. Campbell (DE-443)

USS Kidd

USS Kidd (DD-661), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who died on the bridge of his flagship USS Arizona during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Admiral Kidd was the first US flag officer to die during World War II, and the first American admiral ever to be killed in action. A National Historic Landmark, she is now a museum ship, berthed on the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

USS Kilauea (AE-4)

*6 × 5"/38 caliber guns
*16 × 40 mm AA guns
*20 × 20 mm AA guns
*5 × torpedo tubes
*6 × depth charge projectors
*2 × depth charge tracks

USS Kingbird (AMS-194)

USS Kestrel (IX-175)

USS Keokuk (CMc-6)

USS Kern (AOG-2) was a Patapsco-class gasoline tanker acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet, and to remote Navy stations.Kern was laid as Rappahannock by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation, Tacoma, Washington on 25 May 1942; renamed Kern on 18 July 1942; launched on 7 September 1942; sponsored by Mrs. L. A. Oldin; and commissioned at Seattle, Washington on 9 March 1943, Lieutenant Commander Lewis Williams in command.

USS Keystone State (1904)

Salisbury Yacht Co., Salisbury, Maryland

USS Kenton

A variant spelling of "Kerkennah," referring to the Kerkennah Islands belonging to Tunisia in the Gulf of Gabes

USS Kate

USS Kendrick (DD-612)

USS Kidd (DD-661)

USS Keith (DE-241) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy named in honor of Ellis Judson Keith, Jr., who was killed in action on 11 June 1942, Seaman Keith was posthumously awarded the Air Medal.Keith was originally laid down as Scott but renamed Keith on 8 December 1942, and was launched 21 December 1942 by the Brown Shipbuilding Company in Houston, Texas. Keith was sponsored by Mrs. Ellis J. Keith, Sr., the mother of Seaman Keith; and commissioned 19 July 1943 at Houston, Texas, with Lieutenant D. Cochran in command.After shakedown and training exercises out of Bermuda, Keith sailed from Norfolk, Virginia 14 September 1943 on the first of three voyages escorting convoys from East Coast ports to Gibraltar.After returning from convoy escort duty 22 February 1944, Keith underwent extensive refresher training and participated in antisubmarine warfare exercises before sailing on 15 March as part of escort carrier USS Tripoli's newly formed hunter-killer group. With this group she patrolled the Atlantic Ocean from Brazil to Newfoundland in search of enemy submarines.In July, she joined a similar group operating with escort carrier USS Core. On 30 August, Core’s hunter-killer group contacted an enemy submarine. Keith, assisting in the search, made two hedgehog attacks with inconclusive results.Keith continued to operate with the hunter-killer group patrolling the waters of the Atlantic, escorting convoys from "mid-ocean point" to ports in Brazil, Bermuda, Newfoundland, Cuba, and the United States. On 23 April 1945, the hunter-killer group, operating as a combined force against a large wolfpack of U-boats, spotted a partially submerged submarine but could not locate it after it dived. While searching the next day, USS Frederick C. Davis, a destroyer escort in company, was torpedoed and sunk. Keith and a task group ships headed to the position where the Frederick C. Davis had gone down and launched a depth charge attack that lasted some 12 hours before U-546 was forced to surface. The destroyer escorts opened fire on the submarine; and Keith made two direct hits before the U-boat sank. After the engagement, Keith rescued four survivors from the submarine.In mid-July, Keith departed Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for duty in the Pacific Ocean. Keith found herself in Pearl Harbor at the end of hostilities with the Japanese and got underway for Saipan to perform escort duty and mop-up operations. Shortly after arriving, 31 August, she was assigned an air-sea rescue station between Iwo Jima and Japan. At the end of the year Keith sailed for China, arriving Shanghai on the last day of December. She remained there patrolling and escorting vessels until sailing for the United States on 10 April 1946 via Pearl Harbor and the Panama Canal arriving at Charleston, South Carolina on 15 May 1946. Keith was towed to Green Cove Springs, Florida, where she was decommissioned and placed in reserve 20 September 1946. By the late 1960s she was still in reserve and berthed at Orange, Texas being stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 November 1972 and sold for scrap on 1 December 1973.Keith received one battle star for World War II service.

*1 × 11-pounder gun
*1 × .30 caliber machine gun

USS Kingfish

USS Keresan (ID-1806)

Kidd serves as part of the Louisiana Veterans Memorial.

USS Keosanqua (ATA-198)

Operated as private motorboat Kathrich II 1913-1917

Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Unknown

* Belt:
* Barbettes:
* Turrets :
* Turrets :
* Conning tower:

USS Kilty (IX-37)

The second USS Kensington was a steamship in the United States Navy.Kensington was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by J. W. Lynn in 1858 and was purchased by the Union Navy at Boston, Massachusetts, 27 January 1862. She commissioned at Boston Navy Yard on 15 February, Acting Master Frederick Crocker in command.

USS Kershaw (APA-176) was a Haskell-class attack transport acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II for the task of transporting troops to and from combat areas.

USS Keresaspa (ID-1484)

USS Kermoor

USS Kemper County

* 4 × /35 caliber guns
* 4 × /35 caliber guns
* 14 × /40 caliber guns
* 20 × 6-pounders
* 8 × 1-pounders
* 4 × machine guns
* 4 × torpedo tubes

USS Katahdin was a Unadilla-class gunboat built for the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War.Katahdin was outfitted as a gunboat with cannon and rifled gun for blockade duty and two howitzers for shore bombardment.

USS Kingfisher (ATO-135)

Wife of Rear Admiral Herbert Winslow

*4 oil-fired boilers,
*2 steam turbines,
*2 shafts,
*

USS Keosanqua

USS Khe Sanh (LHA-5)

Kidd

Turkey

SP-715 in 1918

USS Kilty (AG-20)

MARAD T2

USS King (DD-242)

Operated as civilian tugboat Katherine K. 1894-1917

USS Killdeer (IX-194)

USS Kaweah

USS Kineo was a Unadilla-class gunboat built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

*Transferred toUnited States Shipping Boardon 11 August 1919 for simultaneous return to owner

The Keresan family of the Pueblo people

USS Katrina Luckenbach (SP-3020)

The third USS Keppler (DD/DDE-765) was a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. She was named for Boatswain's Mate First Class Reinhardt J. Keppler (1918–1942), who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism" during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.Keppler was launched on 24 June 1946 by Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Shipbuilding Division, San Francisco, California sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth L.

In commercial service as SS Campania and SS Kerowlee 1901-1918, and as SS Kerowlee 1919-1920

USS Kennebec (AO-36)

surfaced at

USS Kingfisher (SP-76)

unknown

USS Kentuckian

one single 5'/38 dual purpose gun mount, twelve 20mm single AA gun mounts

*Kenmore

SS Henry M. Flagler

*Oil Fired Steam Turbine
*1 Shaft

USS Katie

BQQ-10 ARCI passive sonar, BQS-15 high frequency active sonar, WLR-8 fire control radar receiver, WLR-9 acoustic receiver for detection of active search sonar and acoustic homing torpedoes, BRD-7 radio direction finder

*1,526 tons surfaced
*2,424 tons submerged

Disposed of by Scrapping, National Metal & Steel, Terminal Island, Ca 2 December 1975

*20.25 knots surfaced
*8.75 knots submerged

USS Kennebago

*Hull symbol:FFG-59
*Code letters:NJLK
*

USS Kenmore AK-221)

USS Key West (SSN-722), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Key West, Florida. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 13 August 1981 and her keel was laid down on 6 July 1983. She was launched on 20 July 1985 sponsored by Mrs. Virginia Conn, and commissioned on 12 September 1987 with Commander Warren Lipscomb, Jr. in command. She is the fourth Los Angeles-class submarine equipped with the vertical launch system (VLS) capable of carrying 12 Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles (TLAM).

USS Kerowlee

USS Kenneth D. Bailey (DDR713)

TCG Tınaztepe (D 355)

*1 × single 3"/50 caliber gun mount
*2 × single 20mm AA gun mounts

Tug and patrol vessel

USS Kenneth L. McNeal

Pirate of the Pacific

USS Kenneth D. Bailey (DE-552)

*James H. McClintock

Mrs. Harry A. Stuart

Transferred to United States Shipping Board for simultaneous return to owner

USS Kidd (Destroyer)

USS Katherine K. (SP-220)

USS Kewaydin

USS Kenmore (AK-221)

Hull symbol: BB-5

*Transferred toUnited States Department of War18 February 1920

Steam engine, 850 indicated horsepower; one shaft

ROKS Yong Mun (ATA-2)

USS Kauffman , in 1986.

TCG Tınaztepe

LHD 3

USS Kerowlee (1901)

USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) is the third Wasp-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy. She is the fifth ship to be named (the fourth actually commissioned) in honor of USS Kearsarge, a sloop-of-war that gained fame during the American Civil War, which was in turn named for Mount Kearsarge in New Hampshire.

USS Katherine (SP-715)

USS Keresaspa (ID-1484) was a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919.Keresaspa was built in 1903 as the commercial cargo ship SS Franconia for an Austro-Hungarian firm, the Franconia Steamship Company, Limited, by the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company, at Newcastle, England. She had been renamed SS Keresaspa by the time the U.S. Navy acquired her on 31 October 1918 for World War I service. The Navy assigned her the naval registry Identification Number (Id.

USS Kennison (DD–138) was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II, later redesignated AG-83. She was the first ship named for William Kennison.Kennison was launched 8 June 1918 by the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California; sponsored by Miss Elizabeth Riner; and commissioned 2 April 1919, Commander R. P. Enrich in command.

USS Kingbird (IX-176)

as type VC2-S-AP5

USS Keweenaw (CVE-44)

USS Kearsarge (BB-5)

USS Kenosha (1867)

USS Kete (SS-369), a Balao-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the kete, the foureye butterflyfish Chaetodon capistratus. Her keel was laid down by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company of Manitowoc, Wisconsin. She was launched on 9 April 1944 sponsored by Mrs. E. S. Hutchinson, and commissioned on 31 July with Commander R. L. Rutter in command.Departing Manitowoc 20 August, Kete sailed via New Orleans, Louisiana, to Panama.

USS Key West(SSN-722)

USS Katydid (SP-95) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.Katydid was built as a civilian motorboat in 1912 by William Hoff at New Rochelle, New York. Anticipating the entry of the United States into World War I the following month, the U.S. Navy purchased her on 27 March 1917 from her owner, Arnold G. Dana, for use as a patrol boat.

USS Kendrick

USS Kermit Roosevelt (ARG-16) was a Luzon-class internal combustion engine repair ship that saw service in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the only U.S. Naval vessel to be named for Kermit Roosevelt I, the second son of President Theodore Roosevelt and a soldier who served in two world wars.Originally built as SS Deal Island, a Maritime Commission type (EC-2-S-C1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MCE 2680) at the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Inc.

USS Kenneth Whiting

USS Kimberly (DD-80) was a Wickes-class destroyer built for the United States Navy during World War I.

*two 20-pounder Parrott rifles
*six 24-pounder howitzers
*two 12-pounder howitzers

USS Keppler (DD-765)

Transferred toUnited States Shipping Board26 June 1919 for simultaneous return to owner

USS Katahdin (1861)

An island in the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, where a trading post was established in 1631 by William Claiborne

title

Keosanqua

Two-masted schooner

USS Kineo (1861)

*World War II
*Invasion of Sicily
*Battle of Saipan
*Battle of Okinawa

USS Kete

USS Katydid

USS Keppler

Elizabeth Kauffman Bush

USS John King (DD-953)

USS Kate was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.

Sold for scrap 1973

USS Kickapoo

Naval Vessel Register entry for Kinkaid

California Shipbuilding Corporation

*1 5"/38 gun
*1 40 mm quad mount
*4 40 mm twin mounts
*10 20 mm single mounts

*as Rappahannock
*T1-MT-M1 tanker hull

aft

USS Kermanshah (ID-1473) was a cargo ship that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919.Kermanshah was built as the commercial cargo ship SS Himalaia in 1910 at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, by the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company for an Austro-Hungarian shipping firm. In August 1914, when the outbreak of World War I made the seas unsafe for Central Powers' shipping, Himalaia took refuge at New York City in the neutral United States and was laid up there. When the United States entered the war on the side of the Allies in April 1917, the United States Government seized Central Powers ships in American ports, Himalaia among them. The Kerr Navigation Company of New York City bought Himalaia, renamed her SS Kermanshah, after the Iranian city of Kermanshah, and placed her in commercial service under the American flag.The U.S. Navy acquired Kermanshah from Kerr Navigation for World War I service on 1 August 1918, assigned her the naval registry Identification Number (Id. No.) 1473, and commissioned her on 3 August 1918 at New York City as USS Kermanshah with Lieutenant Commander S. W. Hickey, USNRF, in command.Kermanshah departed New York on 17 August 1918 in convoy for Bordeaux, France, with a cargo of general United States Army supplies. Arriving at Bordeaux on 3 September 1918, she returned to New York City on 24 September 1918. Departing New York once again on 12 October 1918, she made a second round-trip voyage to Bordeaux, returning to New York in November 1918. In December 1918, she departed New York on a yoyage to Quiberon and Nantes, France, completing this voyage by returning to New York on 13 February 1919 from Nantes with a cargo of munitions.Kermanshah was decommissioned on 5 March 1919 and transferred to the United States Shipping Board the same day for return to the Kerr Navigation Company.The ship reentered commercial service as SS Kermanshah. She was renamed SS Oceana in 1922, SS Nymphe in 1927, and SS Kalliopi in 1928. During World War II, Kalliopi was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-402 in the North Atlantic Ocean on 7 February 1943.

*James H. McClintock
*Kenmore

USS King (DD-242) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the first ship named for Commander Frank Ragan King.King was laid down 28 April 1919 and launched 14 October 1920 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation; sponsored by Mrs. Allene A. King, widow of Commander King; and commissioned 16 December 1920, Lieutenant Commander R. C. Smith in command.

USS Kasota (YT-222)

USS Kilty (DD-137)

*2 × 32-pounder guns
*1 × 30-pounder Parrott rifle

USS Kentucky (SSBN 737)

USS Kennedy (DD-306)

Bagaduce-class fleet tug

USS Kent Island (AG-78/AKS-26) was a Belle Isle-class miscellaneous auxiliary acquired by the U.S. Navy shortly before the end of World War II. She was used to transport personnel and cargo and was inactivated and disposed of shortly after the war.

*8 × GM diesel engines ,
*2 × variable pitch propellers

USS Keywadin (1869)

*2 × 3-stage reciprocating engines
*3 boilers
*2 shafts

USS Key West (SSN-722), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Key West, Florida. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 13 August 1981 and her keel was laid down on 6 July 1983. She was launched on 20 July 1985 sponsored by Mrs. Virginia Conn, and commissioned on 12 September 1987 with Commander Warren Lipscomb, Jr. in command.

USS Kaula

USS Killdeer (AMc-21)

USS Kearny

USS Ketchikan

Elizabeth City Shipyard, Elizabeth City, NC

USS Kestrel II

USS Key West (PG-125)

USS Kent

US Navy

scrapped, 1982

USS Kearsarge (AB-1)

USS Kasota (YTB-222)

Mrs. T. J. Bluechel

USS Killarney

*Katherine was her previous name retained
*SP-715 was her section patrol number

*USS SP-715 (1918)

tinclad

USS Kershaw (APA-176)

USS Katydid (SP-95)

USS Killdeer

New England Shipbuilding Corporation, South Portland, Maine

USS Kearsarge (LHD-3)

*one 5/38” gun mount,
*twelve 40mm mounts,
*ten 20mm mounts

*3 × 3"/50 caliber guns
*4 × 40 mm guns
*9 × 20 mm guns
*1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
*8 × Y-gun depth charge projectors
*2 × depth charge tracks

USS Kerowlee was a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919.Kerowlee was built in 1901 at South Shields, England, by J. Readhead and Sons as a commercial cargo ship. She operated under the name SS Campania during at least part of her commercial service. She was named SS Kerowlee and the property of Kerr Navigation Company of New York City by the time the United States Army took control of her at Le Havre, France, on 1 December 1917 for World War I service. The U.S.

* light
* full load

M. D. Battomer, Baltimore, Maryland

Alma Powell

USS Kephart (DE-207)

USS Kentucky

USS Kidd (DD-993)

USS Kentucky (SSBN737)

*3 × 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts
*2 × twin 40 mm AA guns
*4 × .50 cal. machine guns
*2 × .30 cal. machine guns

*1 × 6-inch gun
*1 × 3-inch gun

ROKS Yong Mun

USS Kauffman (FFG-59), an Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Vice Admiral James L. Kauffman (1887–1963) and his son, Rear Admiral Draper L. Kauffman (1911–1979), both experts in sub-surface naval missions.Kauffman was laid down on 8 April 1985 by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; launched on 29 March 1986; sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth Kauffman Bush, the daughter of Vice Admiral James L. Kauffman and sister of Rear Admiral Draper L. Kauffman; and commissioned on 28 February 1987 at Bath, Maine, Commander John C. Dranchak, USN in command.As of 2012, Kauffman is captained by Commander William K. Shafley, III, USN, homeported at NS Norfolk, Virginia, and assigned to Destroyer Squadron 22.Kauffman deployed for the final time on 8 January 2015. She was decommissioned on 18 September 2015.

*
* 9 × /50 cal Mark 7 guns
* 10 × /38 cal Mark 12 guns
* 80 × 40 mm/56 cal anti-aircraft guns
* 49 × 20 mm/70 cal anti-aircraft guns

*4 × single 4-inch (102 mm) guns
*2 × single 1-pdr AA guns
*4 × triple torpedo tubes
*2 × depth charge rails

The city of Key West, Florida

Lost off theRyukyu Islandsaround 20 March 1945 with a crew of 87- no survivors.

USS Kermit Roosevelt (ARG-16) was a Luzon-class internal combustion engine repair ship that saw service in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the only U.S. Naval vessel to be named for Kermit Roosevelt I, the second son of President Theodore Roosevelt and a soldier who served in two world wars.Originally built as SS Deal Island, a Maritime Commission type (EC-2-S-C1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MCE 2680) at the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Inc. in Baltimore, Maryland, keel was laid down 30 August 1944; she was renamed USS Kermit Roosevelt (ARG-16) on 29 September 1944; launched on 5 October; sponsored by Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt (Roosevelt's widow); acquired by the Navy 21 October; and commissioned on 31 May 1945 with Commander C. W. Scribner in command.

*2 boilers, General Electric Turbo-electric drive
*2 solid manganese-bronze
* 3-bladed propellers,
* diameter,
* pitch
*12,000 hp
*2 rudders

guided missile frigate

USS Kermit Roosevelt (ARG-16)

USS Kathrich II (SP-148) was a motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.Kathrich II was built as a civilian motorboat in 1913 by E. S. Thibault at Jacksonville, Florida. The U.S. Navy acquired her in 1917 from her owner, Richard B. Marks of Jacksonville, for use as a patrol vessel during World War I.

*USS Katherine (1917-1918)

Gasoline engine, one shaft

*Sank after a collision, 27 January 1871
J. W. Lynn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

USS Kern (AOG-2)

Commercial cargo carrier

USS Kimberly

*2 × Cramp vertical triple expansion engines, each
*4 × Scotch single-ended cylindrical boilers
*2 shafts

Sold to Turkey

USS Katahdin (ram)

decommissioned

Mississippi River near Government St. and River Rd., Baton Rouge, Louisiana

USS Kauffman (FFG-59)

nhl

USS Kentucky (BB-66) was an uncompleted battleship originally intended to be the sixth and final member of the Iowa class constructed for the United States Navy. At the time of her construction she was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the U.S. state of Kentucky. Hull BB-66 was originally to be the second ship of the Montana class. However, the U.S. Navy's experiences in World War II led it to conclude that it required more fast battleships to escort the new Essex-class aircraft carriers that were being built. As a result, Kentucky was reordered as an Iowa-class battleship midway through the war. Like her sister ship Illinois, Kentucky was still under construction at the end of hostilities and was caught up in the post-war draw-down of the armed services. Her construction was suspended twice, during which times she served as a spare parts cache of sorts. In the 1950s, there were several proposals to complete the ship as a guided missile battleship. These were abandoned primarily due to cost concerns, and Kentucky ultimately was sold for scrap in 1958.

* light
* landing

USS Kentucky (BB-66)

Only US Battleship not named after a State

Major Kenneth D. Bailey , a U.S. Marine Corps officer and Medal of Honor recipient

*4 × single 4-inch (102 mm) guns
*2 × single 1-pdr AA guns or
*2 × single 3-inch (76 mm) guns
*4 × triple torpedo tubes
*2 × depth charge rails

USS Keith (DE-241)

, a Civil War Sloop

USS Katrina Luckenbach

USS Kermanshah

USS Key West (SSN-722)

pre-dreadnought battleship

USS Keresaspa (ID-1484) was a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919.Keresaspa was built in 1903 as the commercial cargo ship SS Franconia for an Austro-Hungarian firm, the Franconia Steamship Company, Limited, by the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company, at Newcastle, England. She had been renamed SS Keresaspa by the time the U.S. Navy acquired her on 31 October 1918 for World War I service. The Navy assigned her the naval registry Identification Number (Id. No.) 1484 and commissioned her the same day as USS Keresaspa with Lieutenant Commander James J. Boyce in command.Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, Keresaspa departed New York City with a cargo of 400 horses and mules for transport to France. She discharged her cargo at La Pallice, France, and returned to the United States at Baltimore, Maryland, on 20 January 1919.Following repairs Keresaspa was decommissioned on 11 February 1919 and returned to her owners. She returned to mercantile service, and was renamed SS Pannonia in 1922.

USS Keosanqua (ATO-38)

USS Kershaw (LPA-176)

USS Kingfish (SS-234)

Transferred toUnited States Shipping Board5 March 1919 for return to owner

USS Kansas City

Cahto-class district harbor tug