USS Franklin may refer to:
was a 6-gun schooner, fitted out in 1775 and returned to the owner in 1776 was an 8-gun brig built in 1795, captured by corsairs from Tripoli in 1802, bought back by the Navy in 1805, and sold in 1807 was a 74-gun ship of the line launched in 1815 and broken up in 1852 was a screw frigate launched in 1864 and in active service until 1877, thereafter used as a receiving ship until 1915 was an aircraft carrier commissioned in 1944 and crippled by bombs in March 1945, later repaired but remaining in reserve until decommissioning in 1964

See also was a ballistic missile submarine. was an aircraft carrier