USS Tonawanda

USS Tonawanda

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

* USS Tonawanda (1864), a monitor operating during the American Civil War.

* USS Tonawanda (AN-89), a World War II net laying ship.

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