USS Jamestown
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USS Jamestown may refer to any one of a number of United States Navy
vessels.
United States Navy
The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
vessels.
- USS Jamestown (1844)USS Jamestown (1844)The first USS Jamestown was a sloop in the United States Navy during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War.Jamestown was launched in 1844 by the Gosport Navy Yard, Virginia; and commissioned there on 12 December, with Commander Robert B...
, was a sloopSloopA sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....
that served from 1844 until 1892
- USS Jamestown (PG-55)USS Jamestown (PG-55)USS Jamestown was a patrol gunboat and after 13 January 1943 a Jamestown-class motor torpedo boat tender acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II...
, was a patrol gunboat that served from 1941 until 1946
- USS Jamestown (AGTR-3)USS Jamestown (AGTR-3)USS Jamestown was an Oxford-class technical research ship acquired by the U.S. Navy for the task of conducting research in the reception of electromagnetic propagations....
, was originally a Liberty ship (AG-166) completed in 1945, converted and renamed in 1963, and then redesignated in 1964 to AGTR-3. Scrapped in 1970.