USS ''Delaware'' may refer to the following ships of the
United States Navy
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*, was a 24-gun
frigate
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The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and maneuvera ...
built in 1776 and captured by the British in 1777
*, was a 20-gun ship purchased in 1798
*, was a 74-gun
ship of the line
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, launched in 1820 and burned in 1861
*, was a side-wheel steamer built in 1861 and decommissioned in 1865
*, was a screw steamer renamed from ''Piscataqua'' in 1869
*, was a
battleship
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commissioned in 1910 and scrapped in 1924
*''SP-467'' (later ''AT-5S'' and ''YT-111'') served in the Navy from 1917 to 1923. Although officially known as ''SP-467'', she was erroneously listed under her merchant name of ''Delaware'' on various occasions.
*, a commissioned in 2020
See also
* , an auxiliary launched in 1961 and in ready reserve since 1989.
* ''
The Captain from Connecticut
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'', a novel by
C. S. Forester
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Royal ...
largely set aboard a fictional USS ''Delaware'' during the
War of 1812
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United States Navy ship names