USS Vengeance

USS Vengeance

USS "Vengeance" has been the name of two ships in the United States Navy.

* The first "Vengeance" is a former merchant ship that served under the command of John Paul Jones in the Revolutionary War.

* The second "Vengeance" was used as a bomb ketch against the Barbary pirates in the early 1800s.


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