USS Pioneer

USS Pioneer

USS "Pioneer" may refer to:

*, a nineteenth century barque.
*, may have been a submarine, captured from the Confederate States Navy.
*, a World War II minesweeper commissioned in 1942 and sold to Mexico in 1973 as the "Leandro Valle"
*, is an Avenger class minesweeper currently in service.


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