USS General Putnam

USS General Putnam is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy:

  • USS General Putnam (1857), a Civil War tugboat and gunboat
  • USS General Putnam (SP-2284), a ferry boat acquired under charter by the Navy 6 February 1918
This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.

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