High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Agawam (YTB-809) was a United States Navy Natick class large district harbor tug named for Agawam, Massachusetts.Agawam was the third ship to bear the name.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Arequipa (AF-31) was an Adria-class stores ship acquired by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II. Her task was to carry stores, refrigerated items, and equipment to ships in the fleet, and to remote stations and staging areas.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first ship named in honor of Rear Admiral Aaron Ward, USS Aaron Ward (DD-132) was a Wickes-class destroyer in service with the United States Navy. In 1940, she was transferred to the Royal Navy and renamed HMS Castleton.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Admiral W. S. Sims (AP-127) was a transport in the United States Navy. She was later renamed USNS General William O. Darby (T-AP-127). Later her name was struck and she was known simply by her hull number. In 1981, she was reclassified as IX-510.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Atule (SS/AGSS-403), a Balao-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the atule.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Albatross (1858) was a screw steamer rigged as a three-masted schooner acquired by the Union Navy during the beginning of the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a gunboat with heavy guns and used in the Union blockade of the waterways of the Confederate States of America.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Alkes (AK-110) was an Crater-class cargo ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II, named after Alkes, the alpha star in constellation Crater. 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 Anchor (ARS-13) was an Anchor-class rescue and salvage ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy during World War II. Her task was to come to the aid of stricken vessels.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Agerholm (DD-826) was a Gearing class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was the only ship named for Harold Crist Agerholm (29 January 1925–7 July 1944), a Private First Class in the 2nd Marine Division of the United States Marine Corps. He was killed during the assault on Saipan, and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Argonaut (SS-475) was a Tench-class submarine operated by the United States Navy (USN). Constructed at Portsmouth Navy Yard during the second half of 1944, Argonaut was commissioned into the USN in 1945 and operated during the final year of World War II, although her only contact with the Japanese was when she sank a junk in August.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Accelerate (ARS-30) was a salvage ship in the service of the United States Navy.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Augustus Holly was a schooner purchased at Baltimore by the United States Navy on 13 August 1861.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Alchiba (AKA-6) was an Arcturus-class attack cargo ship of the United States Navy, named after Alchiba, a star in the Constellation Corvus. She served as a commissioned ship for 4 years and 7 months.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Appanoose (AK-226) was a Crater-class cargo ship in the United States Navy named for the Meskwaki chief Appanoose and Appanoose County, Iowa.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS A. Houghton (1852) — a 326 long tons (331 t) bark — was purchased during the beginning of the American Civil War by the Union Navy.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Adhara (AK-71) was a Crater-class cargo ship in the service of the United States Navy in World War II. Named after the star Adhara in the constellation Canis Major, it was the only ship of the Navy to bear this name.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Adolph Hugel (1860) was a schooner acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The third USS Albany (later PG-36/CL-23) was a United States Navy protected cruiser. She was originally laid down for the Brazilian Navy as Almirante Abreu, but was purchased by the United States Navy on 16 March 1898 to prevent her being acquired by the Spanish Navy during the Spanish-American War and renamed Albany.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The third USS Astoria (CL-90) was a Cleveland-class light cruiser of the United States Navy.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Austin (DE-15), was an Evarts-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was named for Chief Carpenter John Arnold Austin (1905-1941) who was killed in action on board USS Oklahoma during the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces on 7 December 1941, and was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Abner Read (DD-769) was a planned United States Navy Gearing-class destroyer laid down during World War II but never completed.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Alarka (YTB-229), was a United States Navy tug in commission from 1945 to 1946.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Augusta (CA-31) (originally CL-31) was a Northampton-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy, notable for service in the Atlantic and Mediterranean during World War II, and for her occasional use as a presidential flagship carrying both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman under wartime conditions (including at the Newfoundland Conference). According to the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, she is named after Augusta, Georgia (rather than Augusta, Maine), and was sponsored by Miss Evelyn McDaniel of that city.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The second USS Altair (AK-257) was a United States Navy Greenville Victory-class cargo ship in commission from 1952 to 1953. She was converted into a general stores issue ship (AKS-32) in 1953 and was in commission as such from 1953 to 1969, seeing extensive service during the Cold War. Prior to her U.S. Navy career, she had operated as the merchant ship SS Aberdeen Victory during the latter stages of World War II.

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