High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Seadragon (SSN-584), a Skate-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the seadragon, a small fish commonly called the dragonet.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Shepherd Knapp (1861) was a large (838-ton) ship with eight guns, purchased by the Union Navy during the beginning of the American Civil War.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Sonoma (AT-12) was a Sonoma-class fleet tug which had the distinction of serving her country during World War I and World War II. For her work as a tugboat in some very dangerous battle areas, she earned five battle stars during World War II. She ended her battle career gallantly, sunk by a crashed Japanese bomber.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Sapelo (AO-11) was a Patoka-class fleet replenishment oiler of the United States Navy. Laid down on 3 May 1919 for the United States Shipping Board by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia, the ship was launched on 24 December 1919, transferred to the Navy on 30 January 1920, and commissioned on 19 February 1920, Comdr. W. R. Kennedy, USNRF, in command.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS S-18 (SS-123) was a first-group (S-1 or "Holland") S-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on 15 August 1918 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 29 April 1920 sponsored by Miss Virginia Bell Johnson, and commissioned on 3 April 1924 with Lieutenant Elliot M. Senn in command.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The fourth USS Spitfire was a sidewheel gunboat in the United States Navy during the Mexican-American War.

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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 Surprise (PG-63), the fourth American naval ship of the name, was the British Flower-class corvette HMS Heliotrope loaned to and operated by the United States Navy from 1942-1945 as a Temptress-class patrol gunboat. After World War II she was sold as a merchant vessel and ended her life in the communist Chinese navy as Lin I.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Scanner (AGR-5/YAGR-5) was a Guardian-class radar picket ship acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1955 from the "mothballed" reserve fleet. She was reconfigured as a radar picket ship and assigned to radar picket duty in the North Pacific Ocean as part of the Distant Early Warning Line.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Storm King (AP-171) was a Storm King class auxiliary transport of the United States Navy. She was designed as a troop carrier, and named after Storm King Mountain.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Savannah (Id. No. 3015) (later designated AS-8) was a submarine tender in the United States Navy in World War I and the years after. She was launched 18 April 1899 as a German commercial freighter SS Saxonia, but was seized by the United States in 1917 and renamed Savannah. In 1933, the ship was renamed USS AS-8 to allow USS Savannah to have the Savannah name.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The second USS Seattle (AOE-3), a Sacramento-class fast combat support ship, was laid down on October 1, 1965, at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington; launched on March 2, 1968; sponsored by Mrs. William M. Allen, Chairman of the Board of the Children`s Orthopedic Hospital Association, Seattle; and commissioned on April 5, 1969, Capt. Bruce Keener III in command.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Sea Devil (SS/AGSS-400), a Balao-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sea devil (Manta birostria), the largest of all rays, noted for power and endurance.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Shangri-La (CV/CVA/CVS-38) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Saffron (1863) was a small (73-ton) steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the beginning of the American Civil War.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) was an Arthur Middleton class attack transport manned by the United States Coast Guard during World War II. She was named after Samuel Chase, a signatory to the Declaration of Independence.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Skimmer (AMCU-41/LCIL-1093) was an LCI(L)-351-class landing craft infantry built for the U.S. Navy for the task of landing troops in combat areas.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Siboney (CVE-112/AKV-12) (ex-Frosty Bay) was a Commencement Bay-class escort carrier of the United States Navy. She was the second ship named for Siboney, Cuba, the Cuban Village near which troops of Theodore Roosevelt`s Rough Riders fought during the Spanish-American War.

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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 S-1 (SS-105) was the lead boat of the S-class of submarines of the United States Navy. The Navy had awarded contracts for the first three S-boats under the same general specifications but of different design types. S-1 was what was known as a "Holland-type", while S-2 was a "Lake-type" and S-3 a "Government-type".

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS St. Augustine (PG-54) was built in 1929 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. in Newport News, Virginia. She was originally a steel-hulled yacht named Viking and later named Noparo. She was purchased by the US Navy on 5 December 1940 and was sent to Bethlehem Steel Corp. in Boston, Massachusetts where she was converted into a patrol gunboat. She was named St. Augustine on 9 January 1941 and commissioned as USS St. Augustine on 16 January 1941.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Saint Paul (CA-73), a Baltimore-class cruiser, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for St. Paul, Minnesota.

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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 Stout (DDG-55) is the sixth Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer. Built by Ingalls Shipbuilding, she was commissioned on 13 August 1994 and she is currently homeported in Norfolk, Virginia.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first USS Saco was a gunboat in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

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