USS Virginia

Ten United States Navy ships have borne the name "Virginia", after the tenth State of the Union.

*The first USS|Virginia|1776|6 was a 28-gun sailing frigate built in 1776, captured by the British in the following year and recommissioned as HMS|Virginia.

* The second "Virginia" was a 14-gun revenue cutter built in 1797 and returned to the Revenue Cutter Service in 1801.

* The third "Virginia" was a 74-gun ship of the line laid down in 1818 but never launched, and broken up on the stocks in 1874.

* A captured Spanish blockade runner "Virginia" was a Navy ship between 1863 and 1865. "or" The fourth USS "Virginia", originally known as "Pet" and as "Noe-Daquy", was captured during the American Civil War and commissioned in the Union Navy.

* The fifth USS|Virginia|BB-13|3 was a battleship commissioned in 1906, decommissioned in 1920, and destroyed in 1923 as a bombing target.

* The sixth USS|Virginia|SP-274, a yacht purchased by the Navy and officially referred to only as SP-274, patrolled Lake Michigan out of Detroit, Michigan during World War I.

* The seventh USS|Virginia|SP-746, a motorboat acquired by the Navy and officially referred to only as SP-746, patrolled the coast out of Machias, Maine during World War I.

* The eighth USS|Virginia|SP-1965, a two-masted auxiliary schooner acquired by the Navy and officially referred to only as SP-1965, patrolled the coast out of Norfolk, Virginia during World War I.

* The ninth USS|Virginia|CGN-38 was a nuclear guided missile cruiser, commissioned in 1976 and decommissioned in 1994.

* The tenth USS|Virginia|SSN-774, commissioned in 2004, is the lead ship of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines.

ee also

* The CSS "Virginia" was the first Confederate ironclad, built using the hull of the captured USS|Merrimack|1855|6.

* CSS "Virginia II", an ironclad ram.

*"Virginia" (schooner), a wooden replica schooner launched in 2005