USS Key West

USS Key West has been the name of three ships in the United States Navy.

  • USS Key West (1862), was a steam ship used by the Union Navy during the American Civil War
  • USS Key West (PF-17), was a Tacoma-class frigate launched in 1943 and scrapped in 1947
  • USS Key West (SSN-722), is a Los Angeles-class submarine currently in service
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.

Famous quotes containing the words key west, key and/or west:

    It so happened that, a few weeks later, “Old Ernie” [Ernest Hemingway] himself was using my room in New York as a hide-out from literary columnists and reporters during one of his rare stopover visits between Africa and Key West. On such all-too-rare occasions he lends an air of virility to my dainty apartment which I miss sorely after he has gone and all the furniture has been repaired.
    Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    This is the Key of the Kingdom:
    In that Kingdom is a city;
    —Unknown. This Is the Key (l. 1–2)

    You in the West have a problem. You are unsure when you are being lied to, when you are being tricked. We do not suffer from this; and unlike you, we have acquired the skill of reading between the lines.
    Zdenek Urbának (b. 1917)