USS Mount Vernon

USS Mount Vernon

USS "Mount Vernon" has been the name of five U.S. Navy ships:

*USS|Mount Vernon|1859, a steamer purchased by the U.S. Navy in April 1861 and sold in 1865.

*USS "Mount Vernon" (1846), a sidewheel gunboat seized by the U.S. Navy in April 1861, renamed USS USS|Mount Washington|1846|2 in November 1861, and sold in 1865.

*USS|Mount Vernon|ID-4508, an ocean liner built in Germany as "Kronprinzesin Cecilie" in 1906, commandeered and commissioned by the U.S. Navy for use as a troop transport as USS "Mount Vernon" in 1917, and decommissioned in 1919.

*USS|Mount Vernon|AP-22, an ocean liner built in the early 1930s as SS "Washington", purchased by the U.S. Navy for use as a troop transport in 1941 and commissioned as USS "Mount Vernon", and decommissioned in 1946

*USS|Mount Vernon|LSD-39, a dock landing ship commissioned in 1972 and decommissioned in 2003.


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