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! The first USS Alaska was a wooden-hulled screw sloop of war, built at the Boston Navy Yard. The ship was launched on 31 October 1868 and sponsored by Miss Grace Hull, the daughter of Mayor Hull of Boston.Alaska was commissioned on 8 December 1869, with Commander Homer C. Blake in command.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Alden (DD-211) was a Clemson-class destroyer of the United States Navy (USN). Serving during World War II, Alden is the only ship of the US Navy to have been named for Rear Admiral James Alden, Jr. (1810–1877).

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Amphion (AR-13) was the lead ship of her class of repair ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. The second U.S. Navy vessel to be named Amphion, she was not commissioned until January 1946, five months after the end of the war. She was decommissioned in September 1971 and transferred to the Imperial Iranian Navy as IIS Chahbahan. She was purchased outright by Iran in March 1977. After the 1979 Iranian Revolution she remained in service with the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy through at least 1985. Her fate beyond that date is not reported in secondary sources.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Arletta (1860) was a schooner acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat and, at times, an ammunition ship, in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Avery Island (AG-76/AKS-24) was a Basilan-class miscellaneous auxiliary acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was used to transport personnel and carry cargo and was inactivated and disposed of shortly after the war.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The second USS Alliance was a screw gunboat that was in service from 1877-1911 with the United States Navy.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Antietam (CV/CVA/CVS-36) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during and shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was the second US Navy ship to bear the name, and was named for the American Civil War Battle of Antietam (Maryland). Antietam was commissioned in January 1945, too late to actively serve in World War II. After serving a short time in the Far East, she was decommissioned in 1949. She was soon recommissioned for Korean War service, and in that conflict earned two battle stars. In the early 1950s, she was redesignated an attack carrier (CVA) and then an antisubmarine warfare carrier (CVS). After the Korean War she spent the rest of her career...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Adams was a screw gunboat and the lead ship of the Adams class.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Algorab (AKA-8) was an Arcturus-class attack cargo ship named after Algorab, a star in the constellation Corvus. She served as a commissioned ship for 4 years and 5 months.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Atlanta (CL-51) of the United States Navy was the lead ship of the Atlanta class of 11 light cruisers. She was the third Navy ship named after the city of Atlanta, Georgia. Designed to provide anti-aircraft protection for US naval task groups, Atlanta served in this capacity in the naval Battles of Midway and the Eastern Solomons. Atlanta was sunk in a night surface action on 13 November 1942 during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Abeona was a stern wheel steamer in the service of the United States Navy, named after the Roman goddess Abeona.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Arnold J. Isbell (DD-869), a Gearing-class destroyer, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Arnold J. Isbell, an aircraft carrier captain during World War II.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Alacrity (PG-87) was an Action-class patrol boat acquired by the United States Navy for the task of patrolling American coastal waters during World War II.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first USS Ability (PYc-28) was a yacht in the service of the United States Navy used for anti-submarine warfare during World War II.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Aeolus (ARC-3) began service as USS Turandot (AKA-47), an Artemis-class attack cargo ship built by the Walsh-Kaiser Co., Inc. of Providence, Rhode Island. In the mid-1950s, she was converted into a cable repair ship to support the SOSUS program, as the lead ship of the Aeolus-class cable repair ship, and she performed cable duties for nearly thirty years.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first USS Alligator was a schooner in the United States Navy.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The third ship named USS Aaron Ward (DD-773/DM-34) in honor of Rear Admiral Aaron Ward was a Robert H. Smith-class destroyer minelayer in the service of the United States Navy.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Atik (AK-101) was a Q-ship of the United States Navy named for al-Atik, a double star in the constellation Perseus. Her twin sister ship was Asterion.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Action (PG-86) was the lead ship of the Action-class patrol boats acquired by the United States Navy for the task of patrolling American coastal waters during World War II. She is the only ship to bear this name

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Antelope (1861) was a stern-wheel steamer acquired by the Union Navy for service during the American Civil War.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Auk (AM-38) was an Lapwing-class minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy after World War I for the task of removing mines that had been placed during the war.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first USS Abbot (DD-184) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy until traded to Britain at the beginning of World War II. She served in the Royal Navy as HMS Charlestown (I-21), a "Town"-class destroyer.

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