USS ''Albany'' has been the name of more than one
United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare, maritime military branch, service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is the world's most powerful navy with the largest Displacement (ship), displacement, at 4.5 millio ...
ship, and may refer to:
* , a 22-gun sloop-of-war commissioned in 1846 and lost at sea in 1854.
* , a 14-gun screw sloop-of-war commissioned as USS ''Contoocook'' in 1868, renamed ''Albany'' in 1869, and decommissioned in 1870
* , a
protected cruiser
Protected cruisers, a type of cruiser of the late 19th century, took their name from the armored deck, which protected vital machine-spaces from fragments released by explosive shells. Protected cruisers notably lacked a belt of armour alon ...
, later reclassified as a light cruiser, in commission from 1900 to 1904, from 1907 to 1913, in 1914, and from 1916 to 1922
* USS ''Albany'' (CA-72), a heavy cruiser renamed in 1942 prior to the beginning of construction
* , a heavy cruiser in commission from 1946 to 1958, converted to a guided missile cruiser and redesignated USS ''Albany'' (CG-10), and then in commission again from 1962 to 1967 and from 1968 to 1980
* , a ''Los Angeles''-class attack submarine commissioned in 1990 and still in active service
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United States Navy ship names