USS Siren

USS Siren

USS "Siren" is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy:

* USS Siren (1862), a Civil War gunboat operating on the Mississippi River.

* USS Siren (1897), a schooner commissioned on 24 June 1898.

* USS Siren (PY-13), a patrol yacht commissioned 15 November 1940.

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