USS Anacostia

USS Anacostia

USS "Anacostia" is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy:

*, was a tugboat and patrol boat during the Civil War.

*, was an oiler commissioned on 25 February 1945.

References

*DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a8-list.htm


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