USS Onondaga

USS Onondaga

Three vessels of the United States Navy or United States Coast Guard have been named USS "Onondaga", after Onondaga Lake and Onondaga County, New York.

* The first "Onondaga" was a monitor in use during the Civil War and later sold to the French Navy.
* The second "Onondaga" was a Coast Guard cutter taken into Navy service in 1917 and 1918.
* The third "Onondaga" was also a cutter, which was in commission in the Coast Guard from 1934 to 1947, and operated as part of the Navy from 1941 to 1945.


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