USS Terror

USS Terror

USS "Terror" may refer to:

* "Terror", a screw tug built in 1861 at St. Louis, Missouri; transferred to the U.S. Navy on 30 September 1862 and renamed USS|Ivy|1862
*, a "Miantonomah"-class monitor originally commissioned as "Agamenticus", 5 May 1864; broken up 1874
*, an "Amphitrite"-class monitor; commissioned 15 April 1896 and served in the Spanish-American War and as a training vessel
*, a minelayer commissioned 15 July 1942 and sold for scrap in 1971


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