USS America
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USS America may refer to:
- USS America (1782), a 74-gun ship of the line, laid down in 1777, but not launched until 1782.
- USS America (1861),[1] was part of the Civil War “Stone Fleet” deliberately sunk to block the harbor in Charleston, S.C. While referenced as the USS America, her actual name was the USS American.
- USS America (ID-3006), originally the German ocean liner SS Amerika seized by the United States during World War I and used as a troop transport.
- USS America (CV-66), an aircraft carrier commissioned in 1965 and decommissioned in 1996.
- USS America (LHA-6), an America-class amphibious assault ship awarded for construction in June 2007 with an expected commissioning date in 2013.
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