USS Hornet

Eight ships of the United States Navy have been named USS "Hornet", after the stinging insect.

*USS|Hornet|1775, was a ten-gun sloop commissioned in 1775, and served in the American Revolutionary War
*USS|Hornet|1805 sloop, was also a ten-gun sloop and took part in the First Barbary War
*USS|Hornet|1805 brig, was a brig-rigged sloop of war launched on 28 July 1805 and sank in a storm on 29 September 1829
*USS|Hornet|1813 was a five-gun schooner used as a dispatch vessel between 1814 and 1820
*USS|Hornet|1865, the first to be steam propelled, was an iron, side-wheeled steamer
*USS|Hornet|1898, a converted yacht, was a dispatch vessel in the Spanish-American War
*USS|Hornet|CV-8, launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942, fought at the Battle of Midway, and was sunk at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942
*USS|Hornet|CV-12 was originally named "Kearsarge", but renamed in honor of CV-8 and active through the rest of World War II and is preserved as a museum ship in Alameda, California