USS Bunker Hill

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Template:Italic title prefixed Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Bunker Hill, in remembrance of the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolutionary War:

  • Template:USS, was an Essex-class aircraft carrier that fought in the Pacific in World War II and was damaged by Kamikaze attacks<ref>Bunker Hill I, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships</ref>
  • Template:USS, was a guided missile cruiser commissioned in 1986 and decommissioned in 2023<ref>Bunker Hill II, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships</ref>

Merchant ships

  • Bunker Hill was acquired by the United States Navy in 1917 and commissioned as Template:USS.
  • Bunker Hill a civilian-operated T2 tanker steamship, sank on 6 March 1964 after an explosion. She broke in two near Anacortes, Washington.

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