USS Alabama

Template:Italic title prefixed At least seven United States Navy ships have been named Alabama, after the southern state of Alabama.

• , a 74-gun ship of the line, laid down in 1819, though never completed as such. She was eventually launched in 1864 as the storeship USS New Hampshire.
• , a sidewheel steamer transferred to the Navy in 1849 that served as a troop transport during the Mexican–American War.
• , a sidewheel steamer merchant vessel that was commissioned in 1861 during the American Civil War.
• , a pre-dreadnought battleship commissioned in 1900 and scrapped in 1924.
• , a 69-foot motor boat inspected by the Navy in the summer of 1917 and assigned the designation SP-1052.
• , a battleship commissioned in 1942, converted to a museum ship in 1964 and now docked in Mobile, Alabama.
• , an currently in service.

See also

• USS Alabama was the French title for the film Crimson Tide, which was set on the eponymous submarine.

See also

• , the merchant ship involved in a 2009 piracy incident

Sources

• Public Domain This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.