Sunk during action offTulagi, 25 October 1942

USS Shamrock Bay

Screven

USS Shellbark (AN-67/YN-91) was a Ailanthus-class net laying ship which was assigned to protect U.S. Navy ships and harbors during World War II with her anti-submarine nets.

USS Sea Bird (1863) was a captured Confederate schooner acquired by the Union Navy from the prize court during the American Civil War.She was put into service as a gunboat by the Union Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.

USS Serpens

USS Seymour D. Owens (DD-767) was scheduled to be a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Seymour D. Owens, a United States Navy officer killed during World War II.Seymour D. Owens was laid down on 3 April 1944 by the Bethlehem Steel Company, San Francisco, California, and was assigned the name Seymour D. Owens on 8 January 1945. Seymour Owens was the captain of the destroyer USS Norman Scott (DD-690); he was killed in action during World War II off the coast of Tinian aboard Norman Scott on 24 July 1944.Since Seymour D. Owens was incomplete at the end of World War II, further construction was cancelled on 7 January 1946, and the incomplete ship was delivered to the U.S. Navy on 28 February 1947. Portions of her hull were used to repair the destroyer USS Ernest G. Small (DD-838). The remainder of her hull was then berthed with the Pacific Reserve Fleet where it remained until sold for scrapping to National Metal and Steel on 23 March 1959. The name Seymour D. Owens was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 9 June 1958.This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

USS Sequatchie

USS Shawmut was a 593-ton steamer acquired by the U.S. Navy and put to use by the Union during the American Civil War.Shawmut served the Union Navy primarily as a gunboat with howitzers for bombardment, and various other rifles and cannon for use at sea in apprehending blockade runners attempting to “run” the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America.

USS Sheehan (DE-541) was a United States Navy John C. Butler-class destroyer escort launched during World War II but never completed.Sheehan was laid down at Boston Navy Yard at Boston, Massachusetts, on 8 November 1943 and launched on 17 December 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Catherine Sheehan, mother of Chief Quartermaster John Francis Sheehan, the ship's namesake.Construction of Sheehan was suspended before she could be completed.

USS Shoveler (AM-382) was an Auk-class 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.

USS Sea Rover (SP-1014)

USS Shad (SS-235), a Gato-class submarine, was the first submarine and second vessel of the United States Navy to be named for the shad, a fish of the herring family, common along coasts of the United States.The second Shad was laid down by the Portsmouth Navy Yard (in Kittery, Maine) on 24 October 1941. She was launched on 15 April 1942 (sponsored by Miss Priscilla Alden Dudley), and commissioned on 12 June 1942, with Lieutenant Commander Edgar J. MacGregor III (Class of 1930) in command.

USS Westport (ID-3548) was a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919.

USS Secret

USS Semmes

USS Shipley Bay (CVHE-85)

USS Sea Devil (SSN-664), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sea devil (Manta birostria), also known as the manta ray or devil ray, the largest of all living rays, noted for power and endurance.

USS Sea Owl

Sunk as a target off Newport on 8 July 1978

USS Sevier (APA-233)

USS Sequatchie (AOG-21)

USS Serene (AM-300) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II. She served in the Pacific Ocean and was awarded six battle stars. She was decommissioned and placed in reserve in 1946. In January 1964, the former Serene was transferred to South Vietnam as RVNS Nhựt Tảo (HQ-10) in the Republic of Vietnam Navy. She was sunk in January 1974 during combat with Chinese forces in the Battle of the Paracel Islands.

Transferred toSoviet Navy, 16 August 1945

USS Shamrock Bay (CVE-84) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy. She was laid down with the hull code ACV-84 on 15 March 1943 by the Kaiser Co., Vancouver, Washington, under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1121); re-designated CVE-84 on 10 June 1943; launched on 4 February 1944; sponsored by Mrs. James R. Dudley; and commissioned on 15 March 1944, Captain Frank T. Ward, Jr., in command.

Entered the Submarine Recycling Program on 1 October 1995

USS Shirin (SP-915) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.Shirin was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1896 by the Gas Engine and Power Company at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York. On 23 May 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, S. T. Rhea, Jr., of New Orleans, Louisiana, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I.

USS Shearwater

USS Sellstrom

USS Schuyler (AK-209)

USS Sharkey

USS Shad

USS Sea Cat (SS/AGSS-399), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for a shortened form of sea catfish, a marine fish of little food value found off the southeastern coast of the United States.

USS Shark (SSN-591), a Skipjack-class submarine, was the seventh ship of the United States Navy to be named for the shark.Her keel was laid down on 24 February 1958 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia. She was launched on 16 March 1960 sponsored by Mrs. Louis Shane, Jr., and commissioned on 9 February 1961 with Lieutenant Commander John F.

*USS Westport (1918–19)

USS Scurry (AM-304)

USS Shoveler (AM-382)

USS Seawolf (SSN-575), a unique submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the seawolf, the second nuclear submarine, and the only US submarine built with a liquid metal cooled (sodium) nuclear reactor known as the Submarine Intermediate Reactor (SIR) or Liquid Metal Fast Reactor (LMFR), later designated S2G. Her overall design was a variant of Nautilus, but with numerous detail changes, such as a conning tower, stepped sail, and the AN/SQS-51 active sonar mounted in the top portion of the bow instead of further below. This sonar arrangement resulted in an unusual bow shape above the water for a U.S. submarine. Her distinctive reactor was later replaced with a standard pressurized water reactor, the replacement process lasting from 12 December 1958 to 30 September 1960.

Crashed during storm nearCaldwell, Ohio, 3 September 1925

USS Shark

USS Sealion (SS/SSP/ASSP/APSS/LPSS-315), a Balao-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sea lion, any of several large, eared seals native to the Pacific.

USS Scroggins (DE-799) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, named in honor of Aviation Radioman Second Class Ted H. Scroggins (1918–1942).Scroggins was laid down on 4 September 1943 by the Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Texas; launched on 6 November 1943; sponsored by Mrs.

USS Shangrila

*SS Empire Nightingale (1941–46)

USS Sheehan (DE-541) was a United States Navy John C. Butler-class destroyer escort launched during World War II but never completed.Sheehan was laid down at Boston Navy Yard at Boston, Massachusetts, on 8 November 1943 and launched on 17 December 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Catherine Sheehan, mother of Chief Quartermaster John Francis Sheehan, the ship's namesake.Construction of Sheehan was suspended before she could be completed. On 30 August 1945, she was assigned to the Atlantic Inactive Fleet in an incomplete state. On 7 January 1946, the contract for her construction was cancelled, and the incomplete ship was sold on 2 July 1946 to the John J. Duane Company of Quincy, Massachusetts, for scrapping.

USS Secuirty (AMc-103)

USS Sentinel (1918)

USS Sea Gull

USS Seekonk (AOG-20) was a Mettawee-class gasoline tanker acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet, and to remote Navy stations.Seekonk was built in 1943 as Summit Springe (MC hull 902) under a Maritime Commission contract by the Marine Maintenance Corp., now East Coast Shipyards, Inc., Bayonne, New Jersey, launched on 24 May 1943 sponsored by Miss Gladys G. Merrick; and commissioned on 10 February 1944, Lt.(jg.) Albert E. Eldred, USNR, in command.

sold and transferred to theRepublic of China, 20 April 1946;

USS Shiloh (1863)

USS Shark (SSN-591)

USS Seagull (AMS-55)

USS See W. See (SP-740)

USS Sea Gull (1838)

USS Seagull (MCS(O)-55/AMS-55/YMS-402) was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass built for the United States Navy during World War II.

USS Shuttle (ID-3572)

USS Scamp (SS-277)

USS Sedgwick (AKA-110) was an Andromeda class attack cargo ship whose construction was cancelled due to the end of World War II. Her name was assigned on 26 April 1945, but her construction was cancelled on 27 August 1945, before her keel was laid.

USS Saunter (AM-295)

USS Seatag

USS Sealion (LPSS-315)

USS Shawmut (1863)

USS Serbia

USS Shellbark (YN-91)

USS Sgt. Sylvester Antolak

USS Sgt. Jack J. Pendleton

USS Sebastian

USS Sennet (SS-408) was a Balao-class submarine, a ship of the United States Navy named for the sennet, a barracuda.Sennet was laid down on 8 March 1944 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, launched on 6 June 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Roscoe W. Downs, and commissioned on 22 August 1944, Commander George E. Porter in command.Sennet was fitted out by 18 September. She held training exercises and torpedo-tube testing off the coast of Connecticut and Rhode Island until 22 October. The submarine then tested mines and torpedoes for the Mine Warfare Test Station, Solomons Island, Md. On 11 November, Sennet proceeded to the operations area off Balboa, C. Z. and conducted further training exercises. The submarine departed Balboa on 29 November for Pearl Harbor and arrived there on 16 December 1944.Sennet's topside armament was increased to two 5-inch (130 mm) guns, two 40 millimeter guns, and three .50 caliber machine guns before departing Pearl Harbor for her first war patrol on 5 January 1945.

USS Seneca

USS Sheepscot (AOG-24) was a Mettawee-class gasoline tanker acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet, and to remote Navy stations.Sheepscot, as Androscoggin, was laid down under Maritime Commission contract on 15 December 1943 by the East Coast Shipyard, Inc., Bayonne, New Jersey; launched on 9 April 1944; sponsored by Mrs. John J. Gogan; (MC hull 2629) was acquired by the Navy on 13 June 1944; and commissioned on 27 June 1944, Lt. George A. Wagner, USCGR, in command.

USS Segwarusa (YTB-365)

USS Seer

USS Shelter (MSF-301)

USS Shea (DM-30)

USS Sea Rover

Probably sunk byJapanesedestroyereast ofManado, 11 February 1942

USS Sausalito (PG-112)

USS Sheepscot

*SS Ricnat (1953)

USS Seagrape (AN-77)

BAP Diez Canseco

USS Seneca (SP-1240)

Transferred to theMaritime Commission, 24 April 1946

USS Searaven (SS-196)

USS Seahawk

USS Seymour D. Owens (DD-767)

USS Scroggins (DE-799) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, named in honor of Aviation Radioman Second Class Ted H. Scroggins (1918–1942).Scroggins was laid down on 4 September 1943 by the Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Texas; launched on 6 November 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Dartha Hardin, sister of Aviation Radioman Scroggins; and commissioned on 30 March 1944, Lieutenant Commander Herbert Kriloff in command.After shakedown, Scroggins sailed on 1 June 1944 for the first of three convoy voyages from the east coast to Bizerte, Tunisia. On 12 November, after returning from her third voyage to the Mediterranean, Scroggins underwent refresher training at Casco Bay, Maine; and then arrived in Argentia, Newfoundland, on 18 December for antisubmarine duty. Except for short periods in port and six days of training off New London, Conn. between 12 and 17 March, she carried out antisubmarine patrols and sweeps in the approaches to Halifax, N.S., as part of a hunter-killer force until 18 April 1945. Between 30 April and 5 May, Scroggins carried out similar patrols off Long Island before proceeding to Norfolk. On V-E day, she was placed on four-hours notice in case she was needed to escort surrendered German submarines to United States ports, but did not have to get underway.Scroggins departed Norfolk on 15 May to screen Guadalcanal (CVE-60) off Jacksonville while the escort carrier qualified pilots for carrier operations. Detached from this duty on 5 June, she then served as a seagoing training ship for the Naval Training Center at Miami, Fla., from 6 June to 17 July. After overhaul at New York and refresher training at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, she served as a training ship with submarines at New London from 5 September to 9 December 1945. Between 9 January and 14 February 1946, the escort served as plane guard for Salerno Bay (CVE-110) off Norfolk, and then returned to New London for more submarine training between 26 February and 1 April. The ship arrived at Green Cove Springs, Fla., on 2 May for inactivation; was decommissioned on 15 June 1946; and was placed in reserve there. Scroggins was struck from the Navy list on 1 July 1965 and sold on 5 April 1967 to the Peck Iron and Metals Co., Portsmouth, Virginia, for scrapping.

Searaven

USS Sea Gull (SP-544)

USS Shada (SP-580)

USS Shipley Bay (CVE-85)

USS Shamokin (1864)

USS Shakamaxon (1863)

USS Screven (AK-210) was an Alamosa-class cargo ship that was constructed for the US Navy during the closing period of World War II. She served in the Pacific Ocean theatre of operations and returned home in 1946 to be placed into the "mothball fleet" where she remained until sold in 1947 for commercial maritime service.

USS Sequatchie (AOG-21) was a Mettawee-class gasoline tanker acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet, and to remote Navy stations.Sequatchie (ex-Royston) was laid down on 1 June 1943 by Todd-Galveston Dry Dock Inc., Galveston, Texas, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 790); launched on 21 December 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Hazel Tometich; delivered on 5 August 1944, and commissioned on 2 September 1944, Lt. Bertram W. Richelt, USNR, in command.

USS Sentinel (SP-180) was the first United States Navy vessel to bear the name. It was a motorboat built in 1917 by Pacific Shipyards and Ways Co., Alameda, California and was purchased by the United States Navy from W. G. Tibbetts on 9 August 1917 and commissioned the same day, Ensign C. A. Lundquist, USNRF, in command.

USS Sea Otter (SP-781)

Ilo

USS Selinur

USS Shannon (MMD-25)

USS Seattle (ACR-11)

USS Shamal (PC-13)

USS Seneca was a Unadilla-class gunboat built on behalf of the United States Navy for service during the American Civil War. Seneca was outfitted with guns for horizontal fire as well as with two howitzers for bombardment of shore targets. With her crew of 84, she was assigned to the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America.

USS Seawolf (SSN 21)

*SS Jamlatsya (1949–53)

Sunk as a target off theVirginia Capes, 14 August 1967

USS Sentinel (SP-180)

USS Sentinel (AM-113)

USS Seal (SS-183)

USS Security (AMc-103) was an Accentor-class 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.Security was laid down on 29 April 1941 by H.G. Marr, Damariscotta, Maine; launched on 27 September 1941; sponsored by Miss Louise Marr; and placed in service on 11 March 1942, Lt. (jg.) R.C. Robbins, Jr., USNR, officer in charge.

USS Sheliak

USS Serrano (AT-112)

The third USS Sea Gull (SP-544) was a wooden yacht in the United States Navy.Sea Gull was built during 1902 as Heather by the Greenport Basin and Construction Company, Long Island, New York, was enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve on 1 June 1917 following the entry of the United States into World War I; and commissioned shortly afterward, Ensign Cheston M. Bryant in command.

"We serve anytime, anywhere;" "It has to be Shasta;" "Max Flex"

USS Sea Otter I

USS Sealion (SS/SSP/ASSP/APSS/LPSS-315), a Balao-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sea lion, any of several large, eared seals native to the Pacific. She is sometimes referred to as Sealion II, because her first skipper, Lieutenant Commander Eli Thomas Reich, was a veteran of the first Sealion, serving on her when she was lost at the beginning of World War II.Her keel was laid down on 25 February 1943 by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 31 October 1943 sponsored by Mrs. Emory S. Land, and commissioned on 8 March 1944.

USS Sea Gull was a schooner in the service of the United States Navy. The Sea Gull was one of six ships that sailed in the US Exploring Expedition (known as the US Ex. Ex.) in 1838 to survey the coast of the then-unknown continent of Antarctica and the Pacific Islands. The specimens collected on the voyage would later form the backbone of the Smithsonian Institution.

USS Seal (SS-183), a Salmon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the seal, a sea mammal valued for its skin and oil. Her keel was laid down on 25 May 1936 by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 25 April 1937 at the Naval Submarine Base, New London, sponsored by Mrs. Rosemary G. Greenslade, wife of Lieutenant (later Rear Admiral) John F. Greenslade and daughter-in-law of Rear Admiral John W. Greenslade.

USS Security

USS Seaman (DD-791) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Lieutenant Commander Allen L. Seaman (1916–1944), a naval aviator who was awarded two Navy Crosses for service in the Pacific War.Seaman was laid down on 10 July 1945 by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation, Seattle, Washington; launched on 29 May 1946; sponsored by Mrs. Barbara K. Seaman, widow of Lt. Comdr.

USS Sea Poacher (AGSS-406)

USS Sennet (SS-408) was a Balao-class submarine, a ship of the United States Navy named for the sennet, a barracuda.Sennet was laid down on 8 March 1944 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, launched on 6 June 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Roscoe W. Downs, and commissioned on 22 August 1944, Commander George E. Porter in command.Sennet was fitted out by 18 September. She held training exercises and torpedo-tube testing off the coast of Connecticut and Rhode Island until 22 October.

USS Seringapatam (1813)

USS Shoveler

USS Seahorse (AGSS-304)

Sentinel

returned to the Maritime Commission, 10 December 1954, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Olympia, Washington

USS Sea Lion (SS-195)

USS Sheldrake (AGS-19)

USS Sheepscot (AOG-24)

USS Sentinel (AM-412) was a steel-hulled fleet (oceangoing) minesweeper of the Admirable class planned for the United States Navy. She was a part of a group of minesweepers scheduled to be built as replacements and for Lend-Lease commitments. On 12 August 1945, three days before hostilities ceased in the Pacific, the U.S. Navy cancelled its contract with the Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Michigan, for the construction of Sentinel.

USS Schuyler (AK-209) was an Alamosa-class cargo ship that was constructed for the US Navy during the closing period of World War II. She served with distinction in the Pacific Ocean theatre of operations and returned home in 1946 to be placed into the reserve "mothball" fleet where she silently remained until she was scrapped in 1971.

USS See W. See (SP-740) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.See W. See was built in 1915 as a private motorboat of the same name by W. F. Downs at Bay Shore, New York. On 18 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, Charles W. Cushman of Vernon, New York, for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS See W. See (SP-740) on 18 August 1917 with Chief Boatswain's Mate John H. Wilson, USNRF, in command.See W. See operated from Section Base No. 5 on patrol duty off the entrance to New York Harbor for the rest of World War I.See W. See was decommissioned on 13 December 1918, stricken from the Navy List, and returned to Cushman.Ca. 1919, Cushman sold See W. See to T. K. Morris, who renamed her Pequest. She had many name changes in succeeding decades, being known successively as Rosalie IV, Jonbob II (she is known to have borne this name from at least 1950 until at least 1955), Mar-Sue II (from at least 1960 until at least 1975), and Misty Isle (at least in 1977). William L. "Butch" Baxter purchased the boat in 1975 and apparently sometime after 1977 renamed her Mar-Sue.As of 2010, Mar-Sue remains active in private use.

USS Scurry (AM-304) was a steel-hulled Admirable-class minesweeper constructed for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was crewed by sailors who were trained in minesweeping, and quickly sent to the Pacific Ocean to clear minefields so that Allied forces could invade Japanese-held beaches. For this dangerous work, often under enemy fire, she was awarded four battle stars.She was laid down on 24 May 1943 by Associated Shipbuilders, Seattle and launched on 1 October 1943; sponsored by Miss Winette DeLaye. The minesweeper was commissioned on 29 July 1944, Lt. Charles E. Dunston in command. The spelling of her name was changed from Skurry to Scurry on 3 August 1944.

USS Seal (SS-20)

The second USS Sentinel, a motorboat built in 1918 by Richardson Boat Co., North Tonawanda, New York, for the United States Coast Guard, was completed on 17 June 1918 and assigned to St. Mary's River patrol, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.

USS Sea Wolf (SS-197)

USS Sea Foam (1861)

USS Shiner (SS-404)

USS Sea Devil (AGSS-400)

USS Sealion (SS-315)

USS Shadow III

USS Seginus

USS Searcher (YAGR-4)

USS LST-1123

USS Sharps (AKL-10)

USS Sheldrake (MSF-62)

USS Scurry (AM-304) was a steel-hulled Admirable-class minesweeper constructed for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was crewed by sailors who were trained in minesweeping, and quickly sent to the Pacific Ocean to clear minefields so that Allied forces could invade Japanese-held beaches.

USS Sea Otter (SP-781) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.Sea Otter was built as a private wooden motorboat of the same name in either 1911 or 1913 by Britt Brothers at Lynn, Massachusetts. On 11 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, Hugh L. Willoughby of Newport, Rhode Island, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I.

USS Short Spice

USS Sea Rover (AT-57)

USS Sedgwick County (LST-1123)

HNoMS Uller (N50)

USS Serene (AM-300)

USS Seer (AM-112/MSF-112/MMC-5) was an Auk-class minesweeper of the United States Navy that served during World War II and the Korean War, and was sold to Norway in 1962.Seer was laid down on 28 November 1941 by the American Ship Building Company of Lorain, Ohio. Launched on 23 May 1942, sponsored by Mrs. J.P. Conley, and commissioned on 21 October 1942, Comdr. Albert F. Block, USNR, in command.

USS Seminole (YT-805)

USS Shenandoah was the first of four United States Navy rigid airships. It was constructed during 1922–23 at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, and first flew in September 1923. It developed the U.S. Navy's experience with rigid airships, and made the first crossing of North America by airship. On the 57th flight, Shenandoah was destroyed in a squall line over Ohio in September 1925.

USS Sealion (SSP-315)

USS Seer (AM-112)

scrapped inBuctouche, New Brunswick,Canadain 1963

USS Sea Otter

USS Sebec

USS Shasta (AE-33) was a Kilauea-class replenishment ammunition ship of the United States Navy. She was named after Mount Shasta, a volcano in the Cascade Range in northern California. Shasta's mission was to support forward deployed aircraft carrier battle groups, which she accomplished through underway replenishment (known as "unrep") and vertical replenishment (known as "vertrep").

USS Shasta (AE-6)

USS Sequatchie (AOG-21) was a Mettawee-class gasoline tanker acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet, and to remote Navy stations.Sequatchie (ex-Royston) was laid down on 1 June 1943 by Todd-Galveston Dry Dock Inc., Galveston, Texas, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 790); launched on 21 December 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Hazel Tometich; delivered on 5 August 1944, and commissioned on 2 September 1944, Lt. Bertram W.

USS Shuttle

USS Seahorse (SSN-669)

USS Senorita (SS-412)

USS Shadwell

USS Severn (AO-61) was a Cimarron-class fleet oiler. She was constructed for the U.S. Navy during World War II and her assignment was to provide liquids, such as fuel or water, to ships in the forward battle areas. She survived this dangerous task and returned home post-war with two battle stars to her credit.The fourth Navy ship to be named Severn, she was laid down under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 727) on 24 November 1943 by the Bethlehem-Sparrows Point Shipyard, Inc., Sparrows Point, Maryland; launched on 31 May 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Harold B. Hinton; and delivered and commissioned on 19 July 1944, Lt. Comdr. Owen Rees in command.

USS Seaman (DD-791)

USS Sea Fox

sold for scrapping in 1974 to Marine Power & Equipment Co,Seattle, WA, 25 June 1974

USS Sevier (APA-233) was a Haskell-class attack transport that saw service with the US Navy in World War II.Sevier was named after counties in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Utah. She was laid down on 4 October 1944 under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull MCV 679) by Kaiser Shipbuilding of Vancouver, Washington; launched on 16 November 1944, and commissioned on 5 December 1944, Capt. A. R. Ponto in command.

USS Shaw

USS Seminole

USS Sequoia

USS Sea Otter (SP-781) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.Sea Otter was built as a private wooden motorboat of the same name in either 1911 or 1913 by Britt Brothers at Lynn, Massachusetts. On 11 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, Hugh L. Willoughby of Newport, Rhode Island, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned the same day as USS Sea Otter (SP-781).Sea Otter performed transportation and supply duties in United States East Coast ports for the rest of World War I.Decommissioned sometime after the end of the war, Sea Otter was stricken from the Navy List on 7 November 1919 and sold to Joseph Guild of Boston, Massachusetts, on 16 January 1920.

USS Sea Devil

USS Seekonk (AOG-20)

USS Sea Gull (1910)

KD Rajah Jarom (A-1502)

USS Shasta (AE-33) was a Kilauea-class replenishment ammunition ship of the United States Navy. She was named after Mount Shasta, a volcano in the Cascade Range in northern California. Shasta's mission was to support forward deployed aircraft carrier battle groups, which she accomplished through underway replenishment (known as "unrep") and vertical replenishment (known as "vertrep"). Shasta and her crew honorably served their country in this role in war and peace across three decades, from Vietnam, to the Cold War, to the Iran-Iraq War, to Operation Desert Storm, and numerous other actions.To accomplish her underway replenishment mission, Shasta utilized seven underway replenishment stations utilizing the Standard Tensioned Replenishment Alongside Method (STREAM), and utilized four cargo booms to load and unload cargo. To accomplish her vertical replenishment mission, Shasta embarked two CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters together with their air and maintenance crews; Shasta's ship's company ran the flight deck and tower. Shasta's Deck Department was among the best in the United States Pacific Fleet.

USS Sea Hound (AP-86)

USS Sgt. Archer T. Gammon

USS Seymour D. Owens (DD-767) was scheduled to be a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Seymour D. Owens, a United States Navy officer killed during World War II.Seymour D. Owens was laid down on 3 April 1944 by the Bethlehem Steel Company, San Francisco, California, and was assigned the name Seymour D. Owens on 8 January 1945.

USS Seranno (AT-112)

Unknown; probably disposed of inEurope1919

USS Short Splice (AK-249)

USS Selfridge (DD-357)

USS Seminole (AT-65), the third ship named Seminole of the United States Navy, was a Navajo-class fleet tug whose task was to travel with the fleet and provide towing services as required.Seminole was laid down on 16 December 1938 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Staten Island, New York; launched on 15 September 1939; sponsored by Miss Grace Svenningsen, daughter of the Foreman Carpenter at the Staten Island Yard; and commissioned on 8 March 1940, Lt. Comdr. William G. Fewel in command.

USS Shamokin (1865)

USS Seven Seas

USS Semmes (AG-24)

USS Shoshone

USS Sgt. Joseph E. Muller

USS Seminole (1859)

USS Sea Rover (SP-1014), later AT-57, was a United States Navy armed tug in commission from 1918 to 1921.

USS Sgt. Curtis F. Shoup

USS Shirin

USS Seafighter

USS Shark (1821)

USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)

Sunk inBattle of the Paracel Islands, 19 January 1974

sold 26 February 1947, to Benham and Boyesin, Inc, Norway

USS Sheehan

USS Seer (MSF-112)

USS Sea Foam (1861) was a brig purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.She was used by the Union Navy primarily as a mortar gunboat, but also as a gunboat stationed off Confederate ports to prevent their trading with foreign countries. Towards the war's end, she was converted into a storeship, keeping fleet ships supplied with necessary materiel.

Transferred toSouth Vietnam, 24 January 1964

USS Seagull (MSCO-55)

USS Seminole (AT-65), the third ship named Seminole of the United States Navy, was a Navajo-class fleet tug whose task was to travel with the fleet and provide towing services as required.Seminole was laid down on 16 December 1938 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Staten Island, New York; launched on 15 September 1939; sponsored by Miss Grace Svenningsen, daughter of the Foreman Carpenter at the Staten Island Yard; and commissioned on 8 March 1940, Lt. Comdr. William G.

USS Westport (ID-3548)

USS Shark (SS-174) was a Porpoise-class submarine, the fifth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the shark. Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut, on 24 October 1933. She was launched on 21 May 1935 (sponsored by Miss Ruth Ellen Lonergan, 12-year-old daughter of United States Senator Augustine Lonergan of Connecticut), and commissioned on 25 January 1936, Lieutenant C.J. Carter in command.

USS Sequoyah

USS Sedgwick (AKA-110)

Probably sunk by Japanese vessels and aircraft south ofTokyo Bay, November 11, 1944

Returned to United States, 1 November 1949

Transferred to theCoast Guard, 18 September 1919

USS Scroggins (DE-799)

USS Shenandoah

USS Shamrock Bay (CVE-84)

USS Segwarusa

USS Shippingport

USS Sea Bird (1863)

USS Shiloh

USS Shirin (SP-915) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.Shirin was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1896 by the Gas Engine and Power Company at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York. On 23 May 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, S. T. Rhea, Jr., of New Orleans, Louisiana, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Shirin (SP-915) on 2 June 1917.Shirin patrolled at New Orleans and in the vicinity of Pensacola, Florida, for the rest of World War I.Shirin was decommissioned at New Orleans on 18 December 1918. She was sold on 29 June 1921 to Stewart McDonald of St. Louis, Missouri.

USS Sea Devil (SSN-664)

The first USS Shark was a schooner in the United States Navy. Built in the Washington Navy Yard to the designs of Henry Steers, Shark was launched on 17 May 1821. On 11 May 1821, Matthew C. Perry was ordered to take command of Shark, and the ship was ready to receive her crew on 2 June 1821.

USS Shelikof (AVP-52) was a United States Navy Barnegat-class small seaplane tender in commission from 1944 to 1947 and from 1952 to 1954.

The third USS Shark was an early Plunger-class submarine in the service of the United States Navy, later renamed as A-7.Shark was laid down on 11 January 1901 at Elizabethport, New Jersey in the Crescent Shipyard under the direction of Crescent's superintendent, Arthur Leopold Busch. She was launched on 19 October 1901, and commissioned on 19 September 1903 at New Suffolk, New York with Lieutenant Charles P. Nelson in command.

USS Sentinel

USS Sausalito (PF-4), a Tacoma-class patrol frigate in commission from 1944 to 1945 and from 1950 to 1952, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Sausalito, California. She also served in the Soviet Navy as EK-16 and in the Republic of Korea Navy as ROKS Imchin (PF-66).

USS Selfridge

USS Seaward

USS Shangri-La (CVA-38)

USS Sennet (SS-408)

USS Shasta (AE-33)

USS Sheehan (DE-541)

Target forOperation Crossroadsatomic bomb test, then sunk as a target off southernCaliforniaon 11 September 1948

USS Saunter (AM-295) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was built to clear minefields in offshore waters.Saunter was laid down on 23 November 1942 by Winslow Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Co., Seattle, Washington, launched on 20 February 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Merle Black, and commissioned on 22 January 1944, Lt. Comdr. James R. Keefer in command.

USS Seawolf (SSN-575)

USS Sea Cat (SS-399)

USS Shellbark (AN-67)

ROKS Imchin (PF-66)

USS Sea Leopard

USS Shark (SS-174)

USS Seekonk (AOG-20) was a Mettawee-class gasoline tanker acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet, and to remote Navy stations.Seekonk was built in 1943 as Summit Springe (MC hull 902) under a Maritime Commission contract by the Marine Maintenance Corp., now East Coast Shipyards, Inc., Bayonne, New Jersey, launched on 24 May 1943 sponsored by Miss Gladys G. Merrick; and commissioned on 10 February 1944, Lt.(jg.) Albert E.

Sunk as a target by the Royal Swedish Navy

USS Shark (SSN-591), a Skipjack-class submarine, was the seventh ship of the United States Navy to be named for the shark.Her keel was laid down on 24 February 1958 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia. She was launched on 16 March 1960 sponsored by Mrs. Louis Shane, Jr., and commissioned on 9 February 1961 with Lieutenant Commander John F. Fagan, Jr., in command.After preliminary testing and fitting out, Shark sailed to the Caribbean Sea in May for her shakedown cruise. The submarine returned to her building yard for post-shakedown repairs and final acceptance by the Navy.

USS Shark (SS-8)

USS Seawolf (SSN-575), a unique submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the seawolf, the second nuclear submarine, and the only US submarine built with a liquid metal cooled (sodium) nuclear reactor known as the Submarine Intermediate Reactor (SIR) or Liquid Metal Fast Reactor (LMFR), later designated S2G.

USS Selma (1856)

USS Seagull

RVNS Nhựt Tảo (HQ-10)

USS Seawolf (SS-28)

USS Seaman (DD-791) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Lieutenant Commander Allen L. Seaman (1916–1944), a naval aviator who was awarded two Navy Crosses for service in the Pacific War.Seaman was laid down on 10 July 1945 by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation, Seattle, Washington; launched on 29 May 1946; sponsored by Mrs. Barbara K. Seaman, widow of Lt. Comdr. Seaman; and delivered, partially complete, on 25 June 1946 to the officer-in-charge of demobilized shipping for the 13th Naval District.Never commissioned, the destroyer was subsequently placed in the Bremerton Group of the Pacific Reserve Fleet, where she remained until struck from the Navy list on 1 March 1961. Her hulk was sold to the First Steel and Ship Corp., New York City, on 12 September 1961, and was delivered to the Learner Co., Alameda, California, on 22 September 1961 for scrapping.

USS Severn

USS Sentinel (AM-113) was an Auk-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II; she was the third U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name. It was laid down on 28 November 1941 by the American Ship Building Company, Cleveland, Ohio; launched on 23 May 1942; and commissioned on 3 November 1942, Lt. Comdr. George L. Phillips, USNR, in command.

USS Sellers (DDG-11)

USS Seadragon

USS YMS-402

USS Searaven (SS-196), a Sargo-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sea raven, a sculpin of the northern Atlantic coast of America.Her keel was laid down on 9 August 1938 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine. She was launched on 21 June 1939 sponsored by Mrs. Julianna B. Cole, wife of Cyrus W. Cole, Commandant of the Portsmouth Navy Yard ; and commissioned on 2 October 1939, with Lieutenant Thomas G. Reamy in command.

USS Seaman

USS Sepulga

USS Sea Horse

USS Shelikof (AVP-52)

USS Sea Panther (SS-528)

USS Seize

USS Shirin (SP-915)

USS Seal (SS-183), a Salmon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the seal, a sea mammal valued for its skin and oil. Her keel was laid down on 25 May 1936 by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 25 April 1937 at the Naval Submarine Base, New London, sponsored by Mrs. Rosemary G. Greenslade, wife of Lieutenant (later Rear Admiral) John F. Greenslade and daughter-in-law of Rear Admiral John W. Greenslade. The boat was commissioned on 30 April 1937, Lieutenant Karl G. Hensel in command.

USS Segwarusa (YTM-365)

USS Shabonee

USS Seneca (ATF-91)

Scrapping viaShip and Submarine Recycling Programbegun 1 March 1995, completed 30 September 1996

USS SP-256

USS Sentry (MCM 3)

USS Saunter

USS Sea Robin

USS Sea Fighter (FSF-1)

USS Serene

USS Scamp (SS-277), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the scamp grouper, a member of the Serranidae family.Her keel was laid down on March 6, 1942 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine. She was launched on July 20, 1942 sponsored by Miss Katherine Eugenia McKee, and commissioned on September 18, 1942 with Commander W.G. Ebert in command.

USS Shokokon

USS Seer (msf-112)

USS Severn (AO-61)

USS See W. See (SP-740) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.See W. See was built in 1915 as a private motorboat of the same name by W. F. Downs at Bay Shore, New York. On 18 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, Charles W. Cushman of Vernon, New York, for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS See W. See (SP-740) on 18 August 1917 with Chief Boatswain's Mate John H. Wilson, USNRF, in command.See W.

Norlindo

USS Severn (AO-61) was a Cimarron-class fleet oiler. She was constructed for the U.S. Navy during World War II and her assignment was to provide liquids, such as fuel or water, to ships in the forward battle areas.

USS Shah Jehan (DD-962)

USS Seringapatam

The second USS Selfridge (DD-357) was a Porter-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She named for Rear Admiral Thomas O. Selfridge (1804–1902) and his son, Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr. (1836–1924).Selfridge was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden in New Jersey on 18 December 1933, launched on 18 April 1936 and commissioned at Philadelphia on 25 November 1936, Commander H.D. Clarke in command.

USS Shoup (DDG-86)

USS Sea Gull (SP-223)

USS Sea Lift (LSV-9)

USS Sheepscot (AOG-24) was a Mettawee-class gasoline tanker acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet, and to remote Navy stations.Sheepscot, as Androscoggin, was laid down under Maritime Commission contract on 15 December 1943 by the East Coast Shipyard, Inc., Bayonne, New Jersey; launched on 9 April 1944; sponsored by Mrs. John J. Gogan; (MC hull 2629) was acquired by the Navy on 13 June 1944; and commissioned on 27 June 1944, Lt.

Schuyler

USS Secota (YTB-415)

USS Shelter

The first USS Seminole was a steam sloop-of-war in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.Seminole was launched by the Pensacola Navy Yard on 25 June 1859; sponsored by Ms. Mary Dallas; and was commissioned there on 25 April 1860, Commander Edward R. Thomson in command.

USS See W. See

USS Shawmut (CM-4)

USS Seranno (ATF-112)

USS Sevier

USS Shasta (AE-6), an ammunition ship, was laid down under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 125) on 12 August 1940 by the Tampa Shipbuilding Company, Tampa, Fla., initially as a C2 type cargo ship. She was acquired by the Navy on 16 April 1941 and launched on 9 July 1941, sponsored by Mrs. Spessard L. Holland. She was commissioned on 20 January 1942 with Capt. Francis A. Smith in command. She was named after Mount Shasta, a volcano in the Cascade Range in northern California, USA.

*SS Westport (1919–41)

USS Sea Tag (SP-505)

USS Seahorse (SSN-669), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, was the second submarine and third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the seahorse.

*SS Inchmull (1946–49)

USS Screven (AK-210)

USS Sentinel (AM-412)

Constructioncontractcancelled 7 January 1946; sold for scrap incomplete 2 July 1946

USS Shokoken

EK-16

USS Sentinel (MB)

USS Shiloh (CG 67)

USS Security (AMc-103)

USS Sgt. Truman Kimbro

USS Scoter (SP-20)

USS Shad (SS-235)

USS Shawmut (CM-11)

USS Sheboygan (PG-165)

USS Seahorse

USS Shakamaxon

USS Shelikof

USS Seminole (AT-65)

USS Sculptor

USS Scoter

USS Sculpin (SS-494)

Transferred toRepublic of Korea Navy, 4 September 1952
USS Sausalito (PF-4)

USS Shada

USS Sea Cloud (IX-99)

Scrapping viaShip and Submarine Recycling Programbegun 1 March 1998, completed 7 September 1999

USS Sheboygan

sold to Zidell Corp. for scrapping, 5 February 1971

USS Seawolf (book)

USS Seal (SS-19½)

USS Seal (SS-19 1/2)

USS Seneca (1861)

USS Skurry