USS ''Penguin'' has been the name of three

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ships: * , a steamer purchased at New York on 23 May 1861 which served in the U.S. Navy until 1865. * , a minesweeper laid down 17 November 1917 at the New Jersey Dry Dock and Transportation Co., Elizabethport, New Jersey which served in the U.S. Navy from 1918 to 1941. * , a submarine rescue vessel laid down as USS ''Chetco'' (AT-99) by the Charleston Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.,

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, 9 February 1943, and commissioned in 1944.

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