USS Ariel

Template:Italic title prefixed Five ships of the United States Navy have been named Ariel, after the sprite Ariel in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

• Template:USS, a 16-gun sloop-of-war, originally the Royal Navy's HMS Ariel captured by the French in 1779, lent to the Americans in 1780, and returned to the French the next year.
• Template:USS, a schooner launched on Lake Erie in 1813 and active in operations that year.
• Template:USS, was a schooner built in Baltimore as Fourth of July. The US Navy commissioned her as USS Fourth of July in May 1831. She was renamed Ariel on 9 June. She was decommissioned on 31 December 1832 and sold on 3 January 1833.
• Template:USS, schooner captured in the American Civil War and used by the Navy until 1865.
• Template:USS, a passenger and refrigerated cargo liner leased from the United Fruit Company and used from 1942 to 1946.

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