Two ships of the

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have been named ''Bunker Hill'', in remembrance of the Battle of Bunker Hill during the

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: * , was an ''Essex''-class aircraft carrier that fought heavily in the Pacific during World War II and was destroyed by Kamikaze attacks * , was a guided missile cruiser commissioned in 1986 and decommissioned in 2023Bunker Hill II
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships

Merchant vessels

* SS ''Bunker Hill'', was acquired by the United States Navy in 1917 and commissioned as . * SS ''Bunker Hill'', a civilian-operated

T2 tanker The T2 tanker, or T2, was a class of oil tanker constructed and produced in large quantities in the United States during World War II. Only the T3 tankers were larger "navy oilers" of the period. Some 533 T2s were built between 1940 and the end of ...

steamer, sank on 6 March 1964 after an explosion. She broke in two near Anacortes, Washington.

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