USS American

USS American

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named American.

  • USS American (1861), part of the Stone Fleet sunk at Charleston, South Carolina. Some references to this ship name it as the America
  • USS American (ID-2292), was a freighter built in 1900 and acquired by the US Navy early in 1918 and returned to her original owners in 1919

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