High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Sea Leopard (SS-483), a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the leopard seal. Her keel was laid down by the Portsmouth Navy Yard on 7 November 1944. She was launched on 2 March 1945 sponsored by Hon. Margaret Chase Smith, United States Congresswoman from Maine, and commissioned on 11 June 1945 with Commander Robert E. M. Ward in command.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The second USS Sampson (DD-394) was a Somers-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for William Thomas Sampson.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Scourge was a steamer warship in service during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) between Mexico and the United States. She was the third United States Navy ship of that name.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS St. Louis (AKA-116/LKA-116), a Charleston class amphibious cargo ship, is the sixth U.S. ship to bear the name. She served as a commissioned ship for 22 years and 11 months.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Shark (SSN-591), a Skipjack-class submarine, was the seventh ship of the United States Navy to be named for the shark, a large predatory fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton, a streamlined body plan, dermal denticles covering the body to protect from parasites, and rows of replaceable teeth in the mouth.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Skywatcher (YAGR-3/AGR-3) was a Guardian-class radar picket ship acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1954. She was converted into a radar picket ship and assigned to radar picket duty in the North Atlantic Ocean as part of the Distant Early Warning Line.

ISBN: 978-5-5121-2056-9

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Spence (DD-512), a Fletcher class destroyer, was laid down on 18 May 1942 by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; launched on 27 October 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Eben Learned; and commissioned on 8 January 1943, Lieutenant Commander H. J. Armstrong in command. The ship was named for Robert T. Spence, superintendent of the construction of USS Ontario (1813), and captain of USS Cyane (1815).

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS SC-501 was a SC-497 class submarine chaser that served in the United States Coast Guard and later the United States Navy during World War II. She was originally laid down as PC-501 on 29 April 1941 by the Seabrook Yacht Corporation in Houston, Texas, and launched on 24 January 1942. She was reclassified SC-501 on 8 April 1943, and acquired from the Coast Guard on 9 April 1943. She was reclassified as Unclassified Miscellaneous Vessel IX-100 on 21 April 1943 and named Racer on 3 May 1943. She was in service from 27 May 1943 to 21 May 1946. She was struck from the Navy Register on 5 June 1946 and sold to the private market on 20 December 1946.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Seagull (AM-30) was an Lapwing-class minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Shaula (AK-118) was a Crater-class cargo ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II. She was responsible for delivering troops, goods and equipment to locations in the war zone.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Sagamore was a Unadilla-class gunboat built on behalf of the United States Navy for service during the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a gunboat and assigned to the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America. Sagamore was very active during the war, and served the Union both as a patrol ship and a bombardment vessel.

ISBN: 978-5-5119-2021-4

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) is one of the final ships in the United States Navy`s Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided missile frigates (FFG). The ship was severely damaged by an Iranian mine in 1988, leading U.S. forces to respond with Operation Praying Mantis.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Stansbury (DD–180) was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II . She was named for John Stansbury.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Serpens (AK-97) was a United States Coast Guard-manned Crater-class cargo ship in the service of the United States Navy in World War II. It was the first ship of the Navy to have this name. It is named after Serpens, a constellation in the northern hemisphere.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Sirona (AKA-43) was an Artemis-class attack cargo ship named after the asteroid 116 Sirona, which in turn is named after the Celtic goddess Sirona. USS Sirona served as a commissioned ship for 13 months.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Salmon (SS-182) was the lead ship of her class of submarine. She was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the salmon, a soft-finned, gamy fish which inhabits the coasts of America and Europe in northern latitudes and ascends rivers for the purpose of spawning.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Sidney C. Jones (1861) was a 254-ton schooner purchased by the Union Navy during the first year of the American Civil War.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Swift (1864) was a small 12-ton schooner captured by the Union Navy during the Union blockade of the American Civil War.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Spirea (1864) was a 409-ton steamer acquired by the Union Navy towards the end of the American Civil War.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The fourth USS Surprise and fifth American naval ship of the name was an Asheville class patrol gunboat that served in the United States Navy from 1969 to 1973.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Sea Foam (1861) was a brig purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The second Navy vessel to bear the name Sachem, this screw steamer was built in 1844 at New York City, where it was purchased by the Navy on September 20, 1861.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Samaritan (AH-10) was a hospital ship that served with the US Navy in World War II. Prior to that, she served as a US Navy transport ship under the name USS Chaumont (AP-5).

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