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USS ''Puritan'' may refer to the following ships of the
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: * was a single-turret
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that was never commissioned. She remained in the docks until 1874 when she was broken up and her name transferred to a new vessel. * was a ''Puritan''-class monitor. After a long fitting out period, she was commissioned on 10 December 1896 and served in the
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and as a militia vessel thereafter. She was sold for scrap 26 January 1922. * , (1918), was a transport, commissioned 20 November 1918 and used to ferry
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. She was decommissioned at
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30 September 1919, and sold. In 1933, she was renamed ''George M. Cox''. Sunk near the
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in 1933. * was an auxiliary
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, commissioned 19 May 1942 and served as a
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Coastal Patrol ship during
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. She was struck from the
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28 June 1944 and transferred to the
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for return to her former owner 18 November 1944. * was the Army mine planter USAMP ''Col. Alfred A. Maybach'' transferred to the Navy, 7 March 1951 and placed directly in reserve. She was later reclassified as MMA–16 and renamed ''Puritan'' effective 1 May 1955. She was struck from the Navy List in 1959. {{DEFAULTSORT:Puritan United States Navy ship names