USS ''Montgomery'' may refer to the following ships of the
United States Navy
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* was a
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 ...
that was never completed during the Revolutionary War.
* was a
sloop or
schooner
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in service from 1813 to 1815.
* was a screw-driven steamer in service from 1861 to 1865.
* was an
unprotected cruiser
An unprotected cruiser was a type of naval warship that was in use during the early 1870s Victorian era, Victorian or Pre-dreadnought battleship, pre-dreadnought era (about 1880 to 1905). The name was meant to distinguish these ships from “p ...
in service between 1891 and 1918.
* was a
destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort
larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats. They were conceived i ...
commissioned in 1918 and later converted to a
minelayer
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. Served in World War II, and sold for scrap in 1946.
* is an commissioned in 2016
See also
* was a
destroyer escort
Destroyer escort (DE) was the United States Navy mid-20th-century classification for a warship designed with the endurance necessary to escort mid-ocean convoys of merchant marine ships.
Development of the destroyer escort was promoted by th ...
, later redesignated a frigate. Launched in November 1970 and decommissioned in June 1993.
* was a World War II tank landing ship.
* was an American
privateer
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during the
War for Independence
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commissioned by the State of
New York
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* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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* was a
Liberty ship
Liberty ships were a ship class, class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Although British in concept, the design was adopted by the United States for its simple, low-cost cons ...
that was wrecked off Sheerness, England, with thousands of tons of ammunition on board.
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United States Navy ship names