USS Port Royal

USS Port Royal

Two United States Navy ships have been named "Port Royal", after Port Royal Sound in South Carolina, site of battles in both the American Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.

* The first "Port Royal" was a sidewheel steamer gunboat commissioned in 1862, active in the Civil War, and decommissioned 1866.
* The second "Port Royal" (CG-73) is a guided missile cruiser commissioned in 1994, the last US cruiser built in the 20th century.


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