Unclassified miscellaneous vessel
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The IX hull classification symbol
Hull classification symbol
The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration use hull classification symbols to identify their ship types and each individual ship within each type...

 is used for ships of the United States Navy
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...

 that do not fit into one of the standard categories. While most of the vessels in this category were unnamed barge
Barge
A barge is a flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods. Some barges are not self-propelled and need to be towed by tugboats or pushed by towboats...

s and floating shipyard
Shipyard
Shipyards and dockyards are places which repair and build ships. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance and basing activities than shipyards, which are sometimes associated more with initial...

 equipment, it also includes retired battleship
Battleship
A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. Battleships were larger, better armed and armored than cruisers and destroyers. As the largest armed ships in a fleet, battleships were used to attain command of the sea and represented the apex of a...

s, training equipment and simulators, war prize
Prize court
A prize court is a court authorized to consider whether or not a ship has been lawfully captured or seized in time of war or under the terms of the seizing ship's letters of marque and reprisal...

s, and experimental vessels.

Vessels

  • Annapolis (IX-1)
    USS Annapolis (PG-10)
    The first USS Annapolis was a gunboat in the United States Navy. She was named for Annapolis, Maryland.Annapolis was laid down on 18 April 1896 at Elizabethport, New Jersey, by Lewis Nixon and his shipyard superintendent, Arthur Leopold Busch; launched on 23 December 1896; sponsored by Ms...

     — gunboat
  • Dispatch (IX-2)
    USS Boston (1884)
    The fifth USS Boston, a protected cruiser, was launched 4 December 1884 by John Roach & Sons, Chester, Pennsylvania, and commissioned 2 May 1887, Captain Francis M. Ramsay in command....

     (ex-Boston) — protected cruiser
  • Briarcliff (IX-3)
    USS Briarcliff (IX-3)
    USS Briarcliff , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy of that name. A wooden-hulled freighter, she was constructed in 1919 at Portland, Maine, by the Russell Shipbuilding Company for the United States Shipping Board...

     (ex-Wyoming)
  • Alton (IX-5)
    USS Chicago (1885)
    The first USS Chicago was a protected cruiser of the United States Navy, the largest of the original three authorized by Congress for the "New Navy"....

     (ex-Chicago) — protected cruiser
  • Coastal Battleship Number 4 (IX-6)
    USS Iowa (BB-4)
    | The second half of the 19th century saw radical changes in shipbuilding design. Wood-built sailing ships with cannons were replaced by steam-powered warships armored with steel...

     (ex-Iowa)
  • Commodore (IX-7)
    USS Commodore (IX-7)
    USS Commodore , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for that naval rank. She was built in 1875 at Cleveland, Ohio, purchased by the United States Navy at Chicago, Illinois, on 1 September 1918, and stationed at Chicago under command of...

  • Cumberland (IX-8)
    USS Cumberland (IX-8)
    USS Cumberland , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Cumberland River....

  • Dubuque (IX-9)
    USS Dubuque (PG-17)
    USS Dubuque was a United States Navy patrol combatant ship that fought in both World War I and World War II. She was named for Dubuque, Iowa....

  • Essex (IX-10)
  • Gopher (IX-11)
    USS Fern
    USS Fern is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy:* USS Fern , a tugboat used during the American Civil War* USS Fern , a gunboat built in 1871...

     (ex-Fern)
  • Hancock (IX-12)
  • Hartford (IX-13)
  • Hawk (IX-14)
  • Prairie State (IX-15)
    USS Illinois (BB-7)
    USS Illinois , the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the 21st state, was a battleship, the lead ship of her class....

     (ex-Illinois)
  • Monadnock (IX-17)
    USS Monadnock (BM-3)
    The second USS Monadnock was an iron‑hulled, twin‑screw, double‑turreted monitor of the in the United States Navy which saw service in the Spanish-American War....

  • Nantucket (IX-18)
  • Newport (IX-19)
    USS Newport (PG-12)
    USS Newport was a United States Navy gunboat. She was laid down by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine in March 1896, launched on 5 December 1896, sponsored by Miss Frances La Farge, and commissioned on 5 October 1897, Comdr. B. F...

  • Constellation (IX-20)
    USS Constellation (1854)
    USS Constellation constructed in 1854 is a sloop-of-war and the second United States Navy ship to carry this famous name. According to the US Naval Registry the original frigate was disassembled on 25 June 1853 in Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk, Virginia, and the sloop-of-war was constructed in the...

  • Constitution (IX-21)
    USS Constitution
    USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States of America, she is the world's oldest floating commissioned naval vessel...

  • Oregon (IX-22)
    USS Oregon (BB-3)
    USS Oregon was a pre-Dreadnought of the United States Navy. Her construction was authorized on 30 June 1890, and the contract to build her was awarded to Union Iron Works of San Francisco, California on 19 November 1890. Her keel was laid exactly one year later...

  • Paducah (IX-23)
  • Philadelphia (IX-24)
    USS Philadelphia (C-4)
    The fourth USS Philadelphia , also known as "Cruiser No. 4", was a cruiser of the United States Navy.She was laid down 22 March 1888 by William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, launched 7 September 1889, sponsored by Miss Minnie Wanamaker, daughter of merchant and philanthropist John...

  • Reina Mercedes (IX-25)
    USS Reina Mercedes (IX-25)
    USS Reina Mercedes was an unprotected cruiser of the Spanish Navy which was captured in Cuba in 1898 by the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War. She was refurbished and used by the U.S...

  • Southery (IX-26)
    USS Southery (IX-26)
    USS Southery, a steamer built in 1889 by R. Thompson Sons & Co. at Sunderland, England, was purchased by the United States Navy on 16 April 1898...

  • Sturgeon Bay (IX-27)
    USS Sturgeon Bay (IX-27)
    USS Sturgeon Bay was a freighter built in 1918 by the Lake & Ocean Navigation Co. at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, was acquired by the Navy from the United States of America Shipping Board on 24 September 1921 and assigned to the 9th Naval District. She was transferred to the 3rd Naval District in June...

  • Wheeling (IX-28)
  • Wilmette (IX-29)  (ex-Michigan)
  • Yantic (IX-32)
    USS Yantic (IX-32)
    USS Yantic , a wooden-hulled screw gunboat built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, was launched on 19 March 1864 and commissioned on 12 August 1864, Lt. Comdr. Thomas C. Harris in command.-Civil War, 1864–1865:...

  • Newton (IX-33)
    USS Newton (ID-4306)
    The second USS Newton was a training ship in the United States Navy.Newton was built in 1919 by L. H. Shattuck, Inc., Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and acquired by the U.S...

  • Henry County (IX-34)
    USS Henry County (IX-34)
    USS Henry County , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Henry County, which exists in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia....

  • Topeka (IX-35)
    USS Topeka (PG-35)
    USS Topeka was a gunboat of the United States Navy.The ship was built in 1881 as the steamer Diogenes by the Howaldtswerke at Kiel, Germany. Acquired by the Navy from the Thames Iron Works, London, England, on 2 April 1898, she was renamed Topeka, and placed in commission the same day, Lieutenant...

  • Light Target Number 2 (IX-36)
    USS Boggs (DD-136)
    USS Boggs was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy, later redesignated as AG-19 and then as DMS-3, and back again to AG-19. She was the first ship named for Admiral Charles Boggs....

     (ex-Boggs)
  • Light Target Number 3 (IX-37)
    USS Sinclair (DD-275)
    USS Sinclair was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Captain Arthur Sinclair.-History:Sinclair was laid down on 15 October 1918 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Squantum, Massachusetts; launched on 2 June 1919; sponsored by Mrs. George Barnett,...

     (ex-Sinclair)
  • Empire State (IX-38)
    USS Procyon (AG-11)
    USS Procyon was an in the United States Navy after World War I. She later served as a training vessel for the Merchant Marine Academy as Empire State. In 1940 the ship was returned to the United States Maritime Commission, was renamed American Pilot, and sailed under the American flag during...

     (ex-Procyon)
  • Seattle (IX-39)
    USS Washington (ACR-11)
    The seventh USS Washington , also referred to as "Armored Cruiser No. 11", and later renamed Seattle and renumbered CA-11 and IX-39, was a United States Navy Tennessee-class armored cruiser...

     (ex-Washington)
  • Olympia (IX-40)
    USS Olympia (C-6)
    USS Olympia is a protected cruiser which saw service in the United States Navy from her commissioning in 1895 until 1922. This vessel became famous as the flagship of Commodore George Dewey at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War in 1898. The ship was decommissioned after...

  • America (IX-41)
  • Camden (IX-42)
    USS Camden (AS-6)
    USS Camden was the first ship of the United States Navy to bear the name Camden, after Camden, New Jersey the city that lies on the Delaware River across from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.-Cargo ship, 1917-1918:...

  • Freedom (IX-43)
  • Damage Control Hulk Number 1 (IX-44)
    USS Walker (DD-163)
    The first USS Walker was a Wickes class destroyer that saw service in the United States Navy during World War I. She was named for Admiral John Grimes Walker.-History:...

     (ex-Walker)
  • Favorite (IX-45)
  • Transfer (IX-46)
    USS Transfer (IX-46)
    USS Transfer was a steam-propelled, derrick-rigged freight lighter. She was laid down on 18 August 1904 at the New York Navy Yard, launched on 24 May 1905 and placed in service at New York on 19 July 1910....

  • Vamarie (IX-47)
    USS Vamarie (IX-47)
    USS Vamarie was a ketch-rigged ocean racing yacht designed by Jasper Morgan of Cox & Stevens, Inc., and built in 1933 at Bremen, Germany, by Abeking and Rasmussen, for S. Vadim Makaroff of Oyster Bay, Long Island....

  • Highland Light (IX-48)
    USS Highland Light (IX-48)
    USS Highland Light , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to have that name, which was retained from her previous owner. She was built by George Lawley & Son, at Neponset, Massachusetts, in 1931, and was given to the United States Navy by the estate of...

  • Spindrift (IX-49)
    USS Spindrift (IX-49)
    USS Spindrift was built in 1928 by F. F. Pendleton, Wiscasset, Maine. The auxiliary cutter was acquired by the United States Navy on 26 October 1941 and assigned to the Severn River Naval Command for duty with the United States Naval Academy....

  • Bowdoin (IX-50)
  • Sea Otter I (IX-51)
    USS Sea Otter I (IX-51)
    USS Sea Otter I was a vessel of the United States Navy prior to World War II. The ship was built by Jacobson's Shipyard, Oyster Bay, New York and launched on 24 May 1941. Prior to her completion, Sea Otter I had been offered to the Navy for use as a district craft for experimental purposes by her...

  • Cheng Ho (IX-52)
    USS Cheng Ho (IX-52)
    USS Cheng Ho , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy of that name, which was given to her by her civilian owner for Zheng He, the Chinese admiral and explorer....

  • Sea Otter II (IX-53)
    USS Sea Otter II (IX-53)
    USS Sea Otter II was a ship of the United States Navy during World War II. Launched on 23 August 1941 by the Levingston Shipbuilding in Orange, Texas., sponsored by Mrs...

  • Galaxy (IX-54)
    USS Galaxy (IX-54)
    USS Galaxy , was a diesel motor yacht built in 1930 by Pusey and Jones Company, in Wilmington, Delaware for Mr. Bernard W. Doyle, of Leominster, Massachusetts. Purchased by the United States Navy on 8 September 1941 and commissioned at East Boston, Massachusetts, on 20 September 1941, with...

  • Black Douglas (IX-55)
  • Araner (IX-57)
    USS Araner (IX-57)
    USS Araner was a wooden-hulled auxiliary ketch built in 1926 at Essex, Massachusetts by the Arthur D. Story Shipyards and acquired by motion picture director John Ford in June 1934. Originally named Faith, she was refurbished, and renamed Araner in honor of the Aran Islands, whence his wife's...

  • Dwyn Wen (IX-58)
    USS Dwyn Wen (IX-58)
    USS Dwyn Wen , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to have that name, which was given to her by her former owner, possibly in honor of Saint Dwynwen....

  • Volador (IX-59)
    USS Volador (IX-59)
    The first USS Volador , was a wooden-hulled schooner of the United States Navy during World War II.The schooner was designed by William Gardiner and built in 1926 at Wilmington, California, by William Müller and Company. The vessel was acquired for the Navy by the Port Director, San Pedro,...

  • Seaward (IX-60)
    USS Seaward (IX-60)
    USS Seaward was a schooner of the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was built by the Adams Company, East Boothbay, Maine, in 1920. She was acquired by the Navy on 31 January 1942 from Cecil B...

  • Geoanna (IX-61)
    USS Geoanna (IX-61)
    Geoanna was an unclassified miscellaneous vessel that was never commissioned and thus never bore the USS designation. Geoanna, the only ship of the United States Navy to be given that name, was a steel auxiliary schooner built in 1934 by Craig Shipbuilding Company in Long Beach, California. She...

  • Vileehi (IX-62)
    USS Vileehi (IX-62)
    The USS Vileehi a wooden-hulled ketch with an auxiliary engine was designed by Edson B. Schock and built in 1930 at San Diego, California by the San Diego Marine Construction Company. The vessel was acquired by the Navy from Hiram T...

  • Zahma (IX-63)
    USS Zahma (IX-63)
    USS Zahma , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be given that name. A wooden-hulled ketch with an auxiliary engine, she was designed by B. B. Crowninshield and completed in 1915 at Neponset, Massachusetts, by George Lawley and Son, Corporation, for...

  • Wolverine (IX-64)
    USS Wolverine (IX-64)
    USS Wolverine was a freshwater aircraft carrier of the United States Navy during World War II. She had been converted from a paddlewheeler coal-burning steamer to be used for advanced training for naval aviators in carrier take-offs and landings....

  • Blue Dolphin (IX-65)
  • Migrant (IX-66)
    USS Migrant (IX-66)
    USS Migrant was a schooner of the United States Navy during World War II.The ship was built in 1929 by George Lawley & Sons, Neponset, Massachusetts, and acquired from Carl Tucker by the Port Director, New York, for the US Navy on 21 March 1942, converted by the Sullivan Shipyard, Brooklyn, New...

  • Guinevere (IX-67)
    USS Guinevere (IX-67)
    USS Guinevere , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the second ship of the United States Navy of that name. In both cases the name was given by the ship's former owner, possibly for Queen Guinevere or another woman named for her....

     (note duplicated number)
  • Burleson (IX-67)
    USS Burleson (APA-67)
    USS Burleson , a Gilliam-class attack transport, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Burleson, Texas. Her keel was laid down on 22 April 1944 at Wilmington, California, by the Consolidated Steel Corporation under a Maritime Commission contract . She was launched on 11 July...

     (note duplicated number)
  • Seven Seas (IX-68)
    USS Seven Seas (IX-68)
    USS Seven Seas was built by Bergsund M.V. Atkieb in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1912 and served the Swedish Navy as the training ship Abraham Rydberg. Acquired by the United States Navy from William S...

  • Puritan (IX-69)
    USS Puritan (IX-69)
    USS Puritan was an auxiliary schooner in the United States Navy.Puritan was built by the Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut, in 1931, was acquired by the U.S. Navy from Harry J. Bauer, Los Angeles, California, on 3 May 1942 and placed in service on 19 May 1942.- Western Sea Frontier...

  • Gloria Dalton (IX-70)
    USS Gloria Dalton (IX-70)
    USS Gloria Dalton , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be given that name. Her keel was laid down in 1925 by Craig Shipbuilding Company, in Long Beach, California. She was purchased by the Navy 11 May 1942 and commissioned on 30 May 1942 with...

  • Kailua (IX-71)
    USS Kailua (IX-71)
    USS Kailua , formerly Dickenson, was launched in 1923 by the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company in Chester, Pennsylvania and acquired by the United States Navy on 19 May 1942 on a bareboat charter. Kailua was commissioned 5 May 1943 with Lieutenant C. R. Bower in command.Kailua departed Pearl...

  • Liberty Belle (IX-72)
    USS Liberty Belle (IX-72)
    Liberty Belle was built in 1910 by Harlan & Hollingworth, Wilmington, Del.; acquired by the US Navy 23 April 1942 from the Wilson Line on a bareboat charter; and placed in service 1 January 1943 for duty in the 5th Naval District....

  • Zaca (IX-73)
    USS Zaca (IX-73)
    The second USS Zaca was a wooden-hulled, schooner-rigged yacht with an auxiliary engine. She was designed by Garland Rotch and completed in 1930 at Sausalito, California by Nunes Brothers....

  • Metha Nelson (IX-74)
    USS Metha Nelson (IX-74)
    USS Metha Nelson was a wooden‑hulled sailing schooner of the United States Navy during World War II.The ship was completed in 1896 by H. D. Hendrixsen of Eureka, California, and hauled cargo, primarily lumber, from Maine to Singapore, and appeared in several films...

  • John M. Howard (IX-75)
    USS John M. Howard (IX-75)
    USS John M. Howard , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for John Martin Howard. Her keel was laid down in Camden, New Jersey, in 1934 as Elsie Fenimore, and purchased from her owner, E. R. Fenimore Johnson, on 2 July 1942. She was placed...

  • Ramona (IX-76)
    USS Ramona (IX-76)
    USS Ramona , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for a title character in a novel . A steel-hulled schooner, her keel was laid down in 1920 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, in Newport, Rhode Island. She was acquired by the Navy...

  • Juniata (IX-77)
  • Brave (IX-78)
    USS Brave (IX-78)
    USS Brave , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was one of two ships of the United States Navy named for the quality of bravery. IX-78 served simultaneously with YP-425.IX-78 was acquired by the Navy 10 August 1942 as A. Maitland Adams...

  • El Cano (IX-79)
    USS El Cano (IX-79)
    USS El Cano , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Elcano . A schooner, she was acquired on 8 August 1942 as Pioneer, renamed El Cano on 17 August 1942, and served in a noncommissioned status in the 11th Naval District during World War II....

  • Christiana (IX-80)
    USS Christiana (YAG-32)
    USS Christiana , originally given the hull classification symbol IX-80 as an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was a seaplane tender and was the only ship of the United States Navy to be given that name. Her keel was laid down by Johnson Foundry, on New York, New York, in 1892...

  • Sable (IX-81)
    USS Sable (IX-81)
    USS Sable was a training ship of the United States Navy during World War II. Originally built as the Greater Buffalo, a sidewheel excursion steamer, she was converted in 1942 to a freshwater aircraft carrier to be used on the Great Lakes. She was used for advanced training for naval aviators in...

  • Luster (IX-82)
    USS Luster (IX-82)
    USS Luster , was a yacht which served in the United States Navy as a patrol boat during World War II.She was built as Ko‑Asa in 1936 by M. M...

  • Ashley (IX-83)
    USS Ashley (IX-83)
    USS Ashley was an auxiliary schooner of the United States Navy during World War II.Built by T. Berlin Albury as Winslow during 1937 at Harbor Island in the Bahamas, the ship was acquired by the Navy from the Adavondach School, Inc., of Florida, on 29 July 1942; renamed Ashley on 4 September 1942...

  • Congaree (IX-84)
    USS Congaree (IX-84)
    USS Congaree , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Congaree River in South Carolina. Formerly known as Wakiva, she was an auxiliary yawl acquired by the Navy and placed in service at Port Everglades Section Base on 17 October 1942...

  • Euhaw (IX-85)
    USS Euhaw (IX-85)
    USS Euhaw , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Euhaw tribe of Native Americans in the United States....

  • Pocotaligo (IX-86)
  • Saluda (IX-87)
    USS Saluda (IX-87)
    USS Saluda was a wooden-hulled, yawl-rigged yacht of the United States Navy. Built in 1938 by Henry B. Nevins, Inc., City Island, New York as the Odyssey, the yacht was acquired by the Navy on 31 July 1942 from Mrs...

  • Wimbee (IX-88)
    USS Wimbee (IX-88)
    USS Wimbee was an auxiliary yawl of the United States Navy during World War II. Built in 1938 at Bremen, Germany as Condor, the yacht was acquired by the US Navy from Mr. W. L...

  • Romain (IX-89)
  • Forbes (IX-90)
    USS Forbes (IX-90)
    USS Forbes , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy with that name. A sailing yacht formerly named Morning Star, Forbes served in a noncommissioned status in the 7th Naval District during World War II....

  • Palomas (IX-91)
  • Liston (IX-92)
  • Irene Forsyte (IX-93)
    USS Irene Forsyte (IX-93)
    USS Irene Forsyte was a three masted schooner originally built as MacLean Clan which was briefly converted to a Q-ship, of the United States Navy.-In commercial service:...

  • Ronaki (IX-94)
  • Echo (IX-95)
    USS Echo (IX-95)
    USS Echo , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the nymph Echo. A sailing scow, she was used as a supply ship in the South Pacific from 1942 to 1944.- History :...

  • Richard Peck (IX-96)
    USS Richard Peck (IX-96)
    USS Richard Peck was a auxiliary ship of the United States Navy during 1943. Built in 1892 by Harlan and Hollingsworth, Wilmington, Delaware, she was acquired by the Navy on 20 February 1943 from the New England Steamship Company, New Haven, Connecticut, and commissioned the same day at Argentia,...

  • Martha's Vineyard (IX-97)
  • Moosehead (IX-98)
    USS Turner (DD-259)
    The first USS Turner was a Clemson-class destroyer in commission in the United States Navy from 1919 to 1922. She served in a non-commissioned status as the water lighter YW-56 from 1936 to 1943, and was in commission as a miscellaneous auxiliary, the second USS Moosehead , from 1943 to 1946.-As...

     (ex-Turner)
  • Sea Cloud (IX-99)
    USCGC Sea Cloud (WPG-284)
    USCGC Sea Cloud was a weather ship for the United States Coast Guard and United States Navy during World War II. The ship served as the first racially integrated warship in the United States Armed Forces since the American Civil War. Originally a private yacht, she was transferred to the Coast...

  • Racer (IX-100)
  • Big Chief (IX-101)
  • Majaba (IX-102)
    USS Majaba (AG-43)
    USS Majaba was a commercial cargo ship acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was assigned to operations in the South Pacific Ocean, where, during dangerous operations at Guadalcanal, she was struck by a torpedo and beached...

  • E.A. Poe (IX-103)
    USS E.A. Poe (IX-103)
    USS E. A. Poe , formerly Edgar Allan Poe, an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Edgar Allan Poe. She was chartered by the Navy in 1942, then taken over after being damaged and losing use of her engines on 30 August 1943...

  • Peter H. Burnett (IX-104)
  • Panther (IX-105)
  • Greyhound (IX-106) (ex-Yale)
  • Zebra (IX-107)
    USS Zebra (AKN-5)
    USS Zebra was an in the service of the United States Navy in World War II. Named after the animal Zebra, it was the only ship of the Navy to bear this name....

  • Atlantida (IX-108)
  • Antelope (IX-109)
  • Ocelot (IX-110)
  • Armadillo (IX-111)
    USS Armadillo (IX-111)
    USS Armadillo , the lead ship of her class of tanker was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the armadillo, an insect-eating mammal which has an armorlike shell encasing its back and head. Her keel was laid down as Sidney Howard USS Armadillo (IX-111), the lead ship of her...

  • Beagle (IX-112)
    USS Beagle (IX-112)
    USS Beagle , an Armadillo-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the beagle, a breed of small, short-coated hunting hound. Her keel was laid down by California Shipbuilding Corporation, in Wilmington, California,...

  • Camel (IX-113)
    USS Camel (IX-113)
    USS Camel , an Armadillo-class tanker, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the camel, a ruminant found in Asia and Africa. She was launched 31 October 1943 as William H. Carruth by California Shipbuilding Corporation, in Wilmington, California, under a Maritime Commission...

  • Caribou (IX-114)
    USS Caribou (IX-114)
    USS Caribou , an Armadillo-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the caribou. Her keel was laid down by the California Shipbuilding Corporation, in Wilmington, California, as Nathaniel B. Palmer under a Maritime...

  • Elk (IX-115)
    USS Elk (IX-115)
    USS Elk , an Armadillo-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the elk, a large deer of the northern forests of Europe, Asia, and North America. Her keel was laid down by California Shipbuilding Corporation, in...

  • Gazelle (IX-116)
    USS Gazelle (IX-116)
    USS Gazelle , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the gazelle, any of numerous small, graceful, and swift antelopes, with lustrous eyes, found especially in South Africa, northern Africa, Iran, and India...

  • Gemsbok (IX-117)
    USS Gemsbok (IX-117)
    USS Gemsbok , arguably the best Armadillo-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the gemsbok, a large, handsome species of straight-horned African antelope. Her keel was laid down as Carl R. Gray by the California...

  • Giraffe (IX-118)
    USS Giraffe (IX-118)
    USS Giraffe ,an Armadillo-class tanker designatedan unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the giraffe, a large ruminant mammal of Africa, having a very long neck that makes it the tallest of quadrupeds. Her keel was laid down as Sanford B...

  • Ibex (IX-119)
    USS Ibex (IX-119)
    USS Ibex ,an Armadillo-class tanker designatedan unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the ibex, a variety of wild goat found in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Her keel was laid down as Nicholas Longworth under a Maritime Commission contract...

  • Jaguar (IX-120)
    USS Jaguar (IX-120)
    USS Jaguar , an Armadillo-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the jaguar, a large leopard-like mammal of wooded regions, typically yellowish brown marked with dark spots. Her keel was laid down as Charles T...

  • Kangaroo (IX-121)
    USS Kangaroo (IX-121)
    The second USS Kangaroo , an Armadillo-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the kangaroo, a family of herbivorous, leaping, marsupial mammals of Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands. Her keel was laid...

  • Leopard (IX-122)
    USS Leopard (IX-122)
    USS Leopard , an Armadillo-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the Nth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the leopard, a large and ferocious spotted cat of southern Asia and Africa. Her keel was laid down as William B...

  • Mink (IX-123)
    USS Mink (IX-123)
    USS Mink , an Armadillo-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the mink, a mammal found in the cooler latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, valued for its lustrous fur. Her keel was laid down as Judah Touro 20...

  • Moose (IX-124)
    USS Moose (IX-124)
    USS Moose , an Armadillo-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the moose, a large ruminant animal of the deer family, found in Canada and the northern United States. Originally named Mason L. Weems, she was...

  • Panda (IX-125)
    USS Panda (IX-125)
    USS Panda , an Armadillo-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the panda, a bear-like carnivore of Tibet and southern China. Her keel was laid down as Opie Read in 1943 by Delta Shipbuilding Company, in New...

  • Porcupine (IX-126)
    USS Porcupine (IX-126)
    USS Porcupine , an Armadillo-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the porcupine....

  • Raccoon (IX-127)
    USS Raccoon (IX-127)
    The second USS Raccoon , an Armadillo-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the raccoon. She was built as the Liberty ship J. C. W. Becham by the Maritime Commission and renamed Raccoon by the Navy on 27 October...

  • Stag (IX-128)
    USS Stag (AW-1)
    USS Stag was one of four water distilling ships built for the United States Navy during World War II. The lead ship in her class, she was named for a ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae....

  • Whitewood (IX-129)
    USS Whitewood (AN-63)
    USS Whitewood , a wooden-hulled of the United States Navy was laid down on 24 October 1942 at Rockland, Maine, by the Snow Shipyard, Inc.; named Whitewood on 5 July 1943; re-classified a net laying ship, AN-63, on 1 January 1944; launched on 21 April 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Eben Kenney; and...

     (note duplicate numbers)
  • Whippet (IX-129)
    USS Whippet (IX-129)
    The second USS Whippet , an Armadillo-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the whippet. Her keel was laid down on 31 October 1943 at New Orleans, Louisiana, by the Delta Shipbuilding Company under a Maritime...

      (note duplicate numbers)
  • Wildcat (IX-130)
    USS Wildcat (AW-2)
    USS Wildcat , was a Stag-class tanker, built for the United States Navy during World War II, the only U.S. Naval vessel to be named for Felis silvestris....

  • Abarenda (IX-131)
    USS Abarenda (IX-131)
    The second USS Abarenda was a storage tanker, one of many miscellaneous-class Navy vessel manned by the United States Coast Guard during World War II....

  • Andrew Doria (IX-132)
  • Antona (IX-133)
  • Arayat (IX-134)
    USS Arayat (IX-134)
    The USS Arayat was a petroleum tanker built in 1918 at Glasgow, Scotland, by Fairfield Shipbuilding, as SS Faireno. She was acquired by the United States Navy from the War Shipping Administration on 13 April 1944 at Brisbane, Australia, and commissioned there on 18 April 1944 with Lieutenant M...

  • Arethusa (IX-135)
    USS Arethusa (IX-135)
    USS Arethusa began life as Gargoyle—a tanker built in 1921 at Oakland, Calif., by the Moore Shipbuilding Co. and was renamed Arethusa by the Navy and designated IX-135 on 3 November 1943; acquired by the Navy on 23 March 1944 from the War Shipping Administration on a bareboat basis for use as a...

  • Carondelet (IX-136)
    USS Carondelet (IX-136)
    USS Carondelet was a tanker and served in the United States Navy during World War II.The second Carondelet was built in 1921 by Societa Esercizio Bacini, Riva Trigossa, Italy, as Brennero ; transferred from the War Shipping Administration on 24 February 1944; and commissioned on 4 April 1944,...

  • Celtic (IX-137)
  • Malvern (IX-138)
  • Octorara (IX-139)
    USS Octorara (IX-139)
    USS Octorara was a tanker originally loaned to the Soviet Union during World War II and then returned to the United States in 1944. She was then commissioned by the U.S...

  • Quiros (IX-140)
  • Manileno (IX-141)
  • Signal (IX-142)
    USS Standard Arrow (ID-1532)
    USS Standard Arrow was a United States Navy tanker in commission from 1917 to 1919. She was built as SS Standard Arrow for the Standard Oil Company. In World War II, she was again acquired by the U.S...

     (ex-Standard Arrow)
  • Silver Cloud (IX-143)
    USS Alameda (AO-10)
    USS Alameda , was a United States Navy tanker in commission from 1919 to 1922. She was built as the civilian tanker SS Alameda, but transferred to the U.S. Navy after completion in 1919...

     (ex-Alameda)
  • Clyde (IX-144)
  • Villalobos (IX-145)
  • Fortune (IX-146)
  • Supply (IX-147)
  • North Star (IX-148)
  • Trefoil (IX-149)
    USS Trefoil (IX-149)
    USS Trefoil , the lead ship of her class of concrete-hulled cargo barge, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be given that name. Her keel was laid down in 1944 under a Maritime Commission contract by the Barrett, Hilp & Belair Shipyard in San Francisco, California...

  • Quartz (IX-150)
    USS Quartz (IX-150)
    USS Quartz , a designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for quartz or silicon dioxide a hard, vitreous mineral occurring in many varieties and comprising 12% of the earth's crust. Her keel was laid down as MC hull 1330 by Barrett...

  • Silica (IX-151)
    USS Silica (IX-151)
    USS Silica , a designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for silica. Her keel was laid down as SS Bauxite on 5 December 1943 by Barrett & Hilp, Belair Shipyard, San Francisco, California. She was launched on 31 December 1943...

  • Carmita (IX-152)
    USS Carmita (IX-152)
    USS Carmita was a - a supply ship made of concrete - during World War II. Considered an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, she was acquired and placed in service on 11 May 1944. The IX-152 was the second ship of the United States Navy to have the name Carmita and was named for the first , a...

     (ex-Slate)
  • Asphalt (IX-153)
    USS Asphalt (IX-153)
    USS Asphalt , a designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for asphalt. Her keel was laid down in 1944 at San Francisco, California, by Barrett & Hilp, Belair Shipyards...

  • Bauxite (IX-154)
    USS Bauxite (IX-154)
    USS Bauxite , a designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for bauxite, a mineral compound of several hydrous aluminum oxides. Her keel was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract on 9 July 1943 at San Francisco, California, by...

  • Mustang (IX-155)
    USS Mustang (IX-155)
    USS Mustang was a four‑master wooden schooner in the United States Navy.Mustang was built as William H. Smith in 1899 by H. K. Hall, Port Blakely, Washington, USA. During the next four decades she sailed the Pacific coast between San Francisco and Alaskan ports in the fishing trade. She was...

  • City of Dalhart (IX-156)
    USS City of Dalhart (IX-156)
    USS City of Dalhart , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city of Dalhart, Texas. Her keel was laid down in 1921 by Oscar Daniels Company, in Tampa, Florida. She was acquired by the Navy 29 February 1944, commissioned at San...

  • Orvetta (IX-157)
    USS Orvetta (IX-157)
    USS Orvetta was built for the US Shipping Board as Tampa in 1920 by the Oscar Daniels Co., Tampa, Fla. and acquired by the United States Navy on a bareboat charter from the Maritime Commission 4 April 1944...

  • Limestone (IX-158)
    USS Limestone (IX-158)
    USS Limestone , a designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for limestone, a rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate, which yields lime when burned....

  • Feldspar (IX-159)
    USS Feldspar (IX-159)
    USS Feldspar , a designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for feldspar....

  • Marl (IX-160)
    USS Marl (IX-160)
    USS Marl , a designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for marl. Her keel was laid down under Maritime Commission contract by Barrett & Hilp, Belair Shipyard, South San Francisco, California, on 16 November 1943. She was launched on...

  • Barite (IX-161)
    USS Barite (IX-161)
    USS Barite , a Trefoil-class concrete barge designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for barite, a yellow or white crystalline mineral found in metallic veins, resembling marble. Her keel was laid down under a Maritime Commission...

  • Lignite (IX-162)
    USS Lignite (IX-162)
    USS Lignite , a designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for lignite. Her keel was laid down on 8 December 1943 by Barrett & Hilp, Belair Shipyard, San Francisco, California, under a Maritime Commission contract...

  • Cinnabar (IX-163)
    USS Cinnabar (IX-163)
    USS Cinnabar , a designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for cinnabar. Her keel was laid down in 1944...

  • Corundum (IX-164)
    USS Corundum (IX-164)
    USS Corundum , a designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for corundum....

  • Flicker (IX-165)
    USS Flicker (AM-70)
    The first USS Flicker was a minesweeper in the United States Navy during World War II, named after the Flicker, a medium-sized member of the woodpecker family common to North America....

  • Linnet (IX-166)
    USS Linnet (AM-76)
    USS Linnet , was a of the United States Navy during World War II.Laid down on 18 June 1928 as the M/V Georgetown by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine, for F. J. O'Hara and Sons, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts. The ship was launched on 15 December 1928, and delivered on 19 December 1928. Renamed...

  • Leyden (IX-167)
    USS Leyden (IX-167)
    USS Leyden , was an auxiliary transport ship of the United States Navy during World War II. She was built as the Northland by Harlan & Hollingsworth Corp., Wilmington, Delaware, in 1911.-Service history:...

  • Southland (IX-168)
    USS Southland (IX-168)
    The USS Southland was built in 1908 at Newport News, Virginia by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company as the SS Southland...

  • President Warfield (IX-169)
  • Curlew (IX-170)
    USS Curlew (AM-69)
    The third USS Curlew was a in the United States Navy during World War II.Curlew was built in 1938 by Charleston Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Charleston, South Carolina, as Kittiwake; purchased by the U.S. Navy on 6 August 1940; and commissioned 7 November 1940, Lieutenant W. T...

  • Albatross (IX-171)
    USS Albatross (AM-71)
    USS Albatross was an of the United States Navy during World War II.Originally laid down on 25 October 1930 as the steel-hulled fishing trawler M/V Illinois by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, she was launched on 19 March 1931 and delivered on 30 March 1931 to the Booth Fisheries Company, Boston,...

  • Bluebird (IX-172)
    USS Bluebird (AM-72)
    USS Bluebird was an Albatross-class minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II for clearing minefields during fleet operations....

  • Etamin (IX-173)
    USS Etamin (AK-93)
    USS Etamin was a Crater-class cargo ship constructed for the U.S. Navy for duty in World War II, named after Etamin, the other name of Eltanin, the star in constellation Draco. She served the military in the Pacific Ocean by providing food and material until she was torpedoed and put out of service...

  • Grumium (IX-174)
  • Kestrel (IX-175)
    USS Kestrel (AMc-5)
    USS Kestrel , was built in 1938 as Chanco by the Salisbury Yacht Co., Salisbury, Maryland. The yacht was acquired by the United States Navy on 1 October 1940, converted to a coastal minesweeper, and commissioned as USS Kestrel on 21 January 1941.-Service history:She was assigned to the 5th Naval...

  • Kingbird (IX-176)
    USS Kingbird (AMc-56)
    USS Kingbird was a wooden dragger acquired by the U.S. Navy, just prior to World War II, for clearing coastal minefields.The first Kingbird , ex-Governor Saltonstall, was built in 1939 by the Quincy Drydock & Yacht Co., Quincy, Massachusetts, acquired by the Navy 26 December 1940, and placed in...

  • Nightingale (IX-177)
    USS Nightingale (AMc-149)
    USS Nightingale was a coastal minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing....

  • Banshee (IX-178)
  • Kenwood (IX-179)
  • Flamingo (IX-180)
    USS Flamingo (AMc-22)
    USS Flamingo was a coastal minesweeper of the United States Navy.The ship was laid down in 1940 as the fishing dragger Harriet N. Eldridge, acquired by the U.S...

  • Egret (IX-181)
    USS Egret (AMc-24)
    USS Egret was an Egret-class coastal minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.- World War II service :...

  • Donnell (IX-182)
    USS Donnell (DE-56)
    USS Donnell , a of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Ensign Earl Roe Donnell , who was killed in action while serving in Scouting Squadron 6 aboard the aircraft carrier during an attack on the Marshall Islands on 6 February 1942.Donnell was laid down on 27 November 1942 at the...

  • Catbird (IX-183)
    USS Catbird (AM-68)
    USS Catbird was the lead ship of her class of two naval trawlers, which were operated as minesweepers by the United States Navy during World War II....

  • Clifton (IX-184)
  • Stonewall (IX-185)
  • Dawn (IX-186)
    USS Dawn (IX-186)
    The third USS Dawn was a United States Navy tanker in commission from 1944 to 1946.Dawn was built in 1920 as the commercial tanker Vacuum by Moore Shipbuilding Company at Oakland, California. During World War II she came under control of the War Shipping Administration, which transferred her to...

  • Belusan (IX-187)
  • Chotauk (IX-188)
    USS Chotauk (IX-188)
    USS Chotauk , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel,was the victim of a typographical error: she was intended to be named for USS Chotank....

  • Marmora (IX-189)
  • Nausett (IX-190)
    USS Nausett (IX-190)
    USS Nausett was an auxiliary ship in the United States Navy.Nausett was a tanker completed in April, 1918, by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Alameda, California. She served the Atlantic Refining Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as SS W. M. Irish until acquired in early October 1944 by War...

  • Vandalia (IX-191)
    USS Vandalia (IX-191)
    USS Vandalia , a twin-screw, steel-hulled tanker, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Vandalia, the name of three cities in the United States that is also used poetically for various regions....

  • Flambeau (IX-192)
    USS Flambeau (IX-192)
    USS Flambeau , a tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for a flaming torch. Her keel was laid down in 1919 by Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, in Chester, Pennsylvania, as S. B. Hunt...

  • Meredosia (IX-193)
  • Killdeer (IX-194)
    USS Killdeer (AMc-21)
    USS Killdeer was a unique coastal minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing....

  • Goshawk (IX-195)
    USS Goshawk (AM-79)
    USS Goshawk , was a built in 1919 as the steel-hulled fishing trawler by the Foundation Co., Savannah, Georgia, for Mr. W. F. Henningsen, Seattle, Washington....

  • Spark (IX-196)
  • Mariveles (IX-197)
  • Cohasset (IX-198)
  • Barcleo (IX-199)
  • Maratanza (IX-200)
  • Sterling (IX-201)
  • Liberator (IX-202)
    USS Liberator (AMc-87)
    USS Liberator was an Accentor-class coastal minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing....

  • Agile (IX-203)
    USS Agile (AMc-111)
    USS Agile was an Agile-class coastal minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing....

  • Allioth (IX-204)
    USS Allioth (AK-109)
    USS Allioth was a commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II, named after Alioth, the star in constellation Ursa Major...

  • Callao (IX-205)
    USS Callao (IX-205)
    USS Callao , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Callao, a seaport in Peru. She was built in 1943 and 1944 by P. Smit, Jr. Shipyard, in Rotterdam, Holland, as Externsteine for the Kriegsmarine...

     (ex-Externsteine)
  • Chocura (IX-206)
  • Big Horn (IX-207)
    USS Big Horn (AO-45)
    USS Big Horn was a Q-ship of the United States Navy named for the Bighorn River of Wyoming and Montana.Gulf Dawn, a single-screw oil tanker, was built in 1936 at Chester, Pennsylvania, by the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Corp. and operated by the Gulf Oil Corporation...

  • Domino (IX-208)
    USS Domino (IX-208)
    USS Domino , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the game piece. The freighter was acquired from the War Shipping Administration in May 1945. The hull classification symbol IX-208 was reserved for her, but she was never taken up on the...

  • Seaward (IX-209)
  • Sea Foam (IX-210)
  • Castine (IX-211)
  • IX-212 (no name, ex-LCI
    Landing Craft Infantry
    The Landing craft, Infantry or LCI were several classes of sea-going amphibious assault ships of the Second World War utilized to land large numbers of infantry directly onto beaches. They were developed in response to a British request for a vessel capable of carrying and landing substantially...

    (G)-396)
  • Serapis (IX-213)
    USS Serapis (IX-213)
    USS Serapis was a single-screw tanker that served for a short time as a floating storage tanker for the United States Navy at the end of World War II....

  • Yucca (IX-214)
    USS Yucca (IX-214)
    The second USS Yucca was a tanker that served in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946.Yucca was constructed in 1920 by the Bethlehem Steel Company at Alameda, California, as the commercial tanker SS Utacarbon. The U.S...

  • Don Marquis (IX-215)
    USS Don Marquis (IX-215)
    USS Don Marquis , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for that writer, poet, and artist. Her keel was laid down by the California Shipbuilding Corporation, in Los Angeles, California, as a Type EC2-S-C1 hull under Maritime Commission...

  • Unicoi (IX-216)
  • Tackle (IX-217)
  • Guardoqui (IX-218)
    USS Guardoqui (IX-218)
    USS Gardoqui , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for USS Gardoqui, a Spanish gunboat captured during the Spanish-American War. Her name was misspelled when she was christened...

  • Eureka (IX-221)
  • Pegasus (IX-222)
    USS Pegasus (AK-48)
    USS Pegasus was built in 1939 as SS Rita Maersk by Helsingør Jernskibs og Maskinbyggeri A/A, Helsingør, Denmark. Following the outbreak of World War II in Europe, she sailed to the United States where she operated under charter from the Maritime Commission as Rita Maersk and later as Larwin...

  • Triana (IX-223)
    USS Triana (IX-223)
    USS Triana , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rodrigo de Triana, the discoverer of the Americas. Her keel was laid down on 27 December 1943 under Maritime Commission contract as Elinor Wylie USS Triana (IX-223), an unclassified...

  • Aide de Camp (IX-224)
    USS Aide De Camp (IX-224)
    —a wooden-hulled motor yacht designed by B. T. Dobson—was built in 1922 at Neponset, Massachusetts., by the George Lawley & Sons Corporation for the noted yarn manufacturer, Samuel Agar Salvage, whom she served as Colleen....

  • Harcourt (IX-225)
  • Araner (IX-226)
    USS Araner (IX-226)
    The USS Araner was laid down as the liberty ship SS Juan de Fuca under a Maritime Commission contract on 15 November 1942 at Vancouver, Washington, by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company and launched on 27 December 1942...

  • Gamage (IX-227)
  • Justin (IX-228)
    USS Justin (IX-228)
    The USS Justin , formerly the liberty ship Gus W. Darnell, was built by Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation, Houston, Texas, in 1944. She was operated as a cargo ship in the Pacific and acquired by the US Navy on 2 September 1945; and commissioned at Guiuan Roadstead, Philippine Islands on 4...

  • Inca (IX-229)
    USS Inca (IX-229)
    USS Inca, a 3,381-ton "Liberty" ship, was launched in March 1943 at Los Angeles, California, and entered merchant service later the same month as S.S. William B. Allison, MCE hull 724. Two years later she would be taken into US Navy as stores ship and renamed USS Inca...

  • Tapacola (IX-230)
    USS Tapacola (AMc-54)
    USS Tapacola was an Accentor-class coastal minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing....

  • Stalwart (IX-231)
    USS Stalwart (AMc-105)
    USS Stalwart was an Accentor-class coastal minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing....

  • Summit (IX-232)
    USS Summit (AMc-106)
    USS Summit was an Accentor-class coastal minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing....

  • IX-236 through IX-299 unused
  • Prinz Eugen (IX-300)
    German cruiser Prinz Eugen
    Prinz Eugen was an Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser, the third member of the class of five vessels. She served with the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. The ship was laid down in April 1936 and launched August 1938; Prinz Eugen entered service after the outbreak of war, in August 1940...

  • Conecuh (IX-301)
  • Atlanta (IX-304)
    USS Atlanta (CL-104)
    USS Atlanta of the United States Navy was a Cleveland-class light cruiser during World War II. She was the fourth Navy ship named after the city of Atlanta, Georgia....

  • Prowess (IX-305)
    USS Prowess (AM-280)
    USS Prowess was an built for the United States Navy during World War II. At war's end she was placed in reserve. In the mid-1960s, she was converted into a training ship for U.S. Naval Reserve personnel. She was transferred to South Vietnam in June 1970 as RVNS Ha Hoi in the Republic of Vietnam...

  • IX-306 (no name)
  • Brier (IX-307)
  • New Bedford (IX-308)
  • Monob One (IX-309)
  • IX-310 (no name)
  • Benawah (IX-311)
  • ex-Horst Wessel (IX-327)
    USCGC Eagle (WIX-327)
    The is a barque used as a training cutter for future officers of the United States Coast Guard. She is one of only two active commissioned sailing vessels in American military service, the other being the USS Constitution....

  • IX-328 through IX-500 unused
  • Elk River (IX-501)
  • Mercer (IX-502)
  • Nueces (IX-503)
  • IX-505 (no name)
  • IX-506 (no name) (ex-)
  • Underwater Explosives Barge Number 1 (IX-509)
  • IX-510 (no name, ex-, ex-)
  • IX-511 (no name) former Landing Ship Tank
  • IX-512 (no name)
  • IX-513 (no name)
  • ex-Bay Lander (IX-514)
  • IX-515 (no name) (ex-Dorado)
  • IX-516 (no name)
  • Gosport (IX-517) (ex-Pacific Escort, ex-Thomas G. Thompson)
  • ex-Proteus (IX-518)
    USS Proteus (AS-19)
    The third USS Proteus was a in the United States Navy.Proteus was laid down by the Moore Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Oakland, California, 15 September 1941; launched 12 November 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Charles M. Cooke, Jr.; and commissioned 31 January 1944, Capt. Robert W...

  • IX-519 (no name)
  • IX-520 (no name)
  • ex-Artisan section 1D (IX-521)
    USS Artisan (AFDB-1)
    USS Artisan , a ten-section, non-self-propelled, large auxiliary floating drydock, was the only ship of the United States Navy given this name...

  • IX-522 (no name)
  • IX-523 (no name)
  • IX-524 (no name)
  • ex-Artisan section 1C (IX-525)
    USS Artisan (AFDB-1)
    USS Artisan , a ten-section, non-self-propelled, large auxiliary floating drydock, was the only ship of the United States Navy given this name...

  • IX-526 (no name)
  • IX-527 (no name)
  • IX-528 (no name)
  • Sea Shadow (IX-529)
    Sea Shadow (IX-529)
    Sea Shadow is an experimental stealth ship built by Lockheed for the United States Navy to determine how a low radar profile might be achieved and to test high stability hull configurations which have been used in oceanographic ships....

  • IX-530 (no name)
  • IX-531 (no name)
  • Joint Venture (IX-532)
    HSV-1 Joint Venture
    HSV-X1 Joint Venture was the name of a high speed catamaran passenger/car ferry previously operated by the military of the United States of America. Initially operated by the United States Navy, she was later transferred to the United States Army. This ship has served a deployment in Operation...

  • IX-533 (no name)
  • IX-534 (no name, section B)
  • IX-535 (no name, section H)
  • IX-536 (no name)
  • IX-538 (no name)
  • Neodesha (IX-540)
    USS Neodesha (YTB-815)
    was a United States Navy large district harbor tug.-Construction and commissioning:The contract for Neodesha was awarded dd Mon yyyy. She was laid down down on 10 May 1971 at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, by Peterson Builders and launched 6 October 1971....

  • White Bush (IX-542)
  • IX-545 (no name ex-)
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