List of U.S. Military Vessels Named After Women - Navy Ships

Navy Ships

• USS Queen of France (1777), a frigate in the Continental Navy named for Marie Antoinette.
• USS Pocahontas (YT-266), a harbor tug commissioned in 1942 and named for Pocahontas.
• Five transports commissioned in 1942:
  • USS Dorothea L. Dix (AP-67), named for Dorothea Dix
  • USS Elizabeth C. Stanton (AP-69), named for Elizabeth C. Stanton
  • USS Florence Nightingale (AP-70), named for Florence Nightingale
  • USS Lyon (AP-71), named for Mary Lyon
  • USS Susan B. Anthony (AP-72), named for Susan B. Anthony
• USS Sacagawea (YT-326) (later designation of YTM-326), a harbor tug that served in Charleston harbor from 1942 to 1945.
• USS Watseka (YT-387), a 1944 harbor tug named for a Potawatomi woman.
• USS Higbee (DD-806), 1945 a Gearing-class destroyer named for Lenah S. Higbee, Superintendent of Navy Nurse Corps 1911–1922, Higbee served in Fast Carrier Force. She was the first ship laid down, christened, and commissioned for a woman who had served in the U.S. Navy, and the first to see combat so named.
• USS Hopper (DDG-70), 1996. Built and commissioned at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer is named for RDML Grace Murray Hopper, a computer technology pioneer who led the Navy into the digital age.
• USS Roosevelt (DDG-80) is explicitly named for both Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt
• USNS Sacagawea (T-AKE-2) was announced in 2000. She is the second of a new class of replenishment ships.
• USNS Mary Sears (T-AGS 65), an oceanographic survey ship, was launched in October 2000 and is still active as of 2007. She was named for Commander Mary Sears.
• USNS Amelia Earhart (T-AKE-6) is a sister ship of Sacagawea and launched in 2008.
• USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10) Littoral Combat Ship named for Retired Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords

Note that even though the name Shenandoah is an American Indian word meaning "Daughter of the Stars," the navy airship USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) and other ships are named for the river Shenandoah in Virginia.