USS Kentucky

Template:Italic title prefixed Three ships of the United States Navy (and one of the Confederate States Navy) have been named for the 15th state:

• The Mississippi Flotilla captured Confederate transport Template:Ship at Memphis 6 June 1862. The US Navy Register for 1863 listed her as assigned to the Mississippi Squadron but no other record of her service in the Union Navy has been found.
• Template:USS was a Template:Sclass launched 24 March 1898, sailed with the Great White Fleet and sold for scrapping 23 January 1924
• Template:USS was an Template:Sclass under construction in 1947 when her contract was canceled
• Template:USS is an Template:Sclass commissioned in 1991 and currently in active service

See also

• Template:USS
• Kentucky, a riverboat which sank near Shreveport, Louisiana in 1865 with the loss of 200 lives. See List of shipwrecks of the United States.