USS Challenge

USS Challenge

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

*, a tugboat built in 1889 by J. H. Dialogue and Sons, Camden, New Jersey.

*, a tugboat delivered to the Navy, 22 November 1944.


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