USS Siboney

USS Siboney

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS "Siboney", after the town of Siboney, Cuba, the site of American landings in the Spanish-American War.

* The first "Siboney" (ID-2999) was a civilian ship requisitioned in World War I as a troopship and returned to the Ward Line (New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company) after the war.

* The second "Siboney" (CVE-112) was an escort aircraft carrier in service from 1945 to 1956.


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