USS Tippecanoe

USS Tippecanoe

Several ships in the United States Navy have borne the name USS "Tippecanoe", after the Tippecanoe River, site of the Battle of Tippecanoe.

*USS|Tippecanoe|1862, was a "Canonicus" class monitor launched in 1864, renamed "Vesuvius" and than "Wyandotte" in 1869, and decommissioned in 1898.
*USS|Tippecanoe|AO-21, was a "Patoka"-class fleet replenishment oiler launched in 1920, commissioned in 1940, and decommissioned in 1946
*USNS|Tippecanoe|T-AO-199 is a "Henry J. Kaiser"-class underway replenishment oiler, commissioned in 1993


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